[Nottingham] Touchscreen under X

[James Dobson]

A wild stab in the dark is 

http://www.3m.com/3MTouchSystems/downloads/Linux_drivers.jhtml

you may want to try and see if anything appears in
'dmesg' as this may help in find out what the device
is, in anything driver related it *really* does help
to know what/who made the device.

James D


--- Michael Quaintance <penfoldq at penfoldq.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm trying to get an old POS terminal to work as a
> touchscreen X-Server 
> for playing music through my hi-fi.
> 
> It was sourced from eBay so there is no original
> documentation available 
> and the ncr.com website is useless. Google has so
> far been my friend but 
> is now letting me down so I am asking !lug for
> advice.
> 
> I've managed to get the machine to boot using PXE
> and load a minimal 
> linux distro using the power of LTSP 4.1.1. I've got
> it running XDM and 
> running apps on the server with local display but
> the touchscreen is 
> proving more than a little awkward.
> 
> I believe the touchscreen is connected through the
> PS/2 port which is 
> obscure enough that I can find no references to this
> in Google (serial 
> and USB but no mentions of PS/2). If I "cat
> /dev/psaux" and touch the 
> screen, I get lots of responses corresponding to my
> presses and drags.
> 
> When I set my XF86Config (3.3.6 SVGA driver) to use
> either Elo or 
> Microtouch input drivers, I get a message from the
> X-Server "Unable to 
> configure {Elographics,Microtouch} touchscreen port:
> Inappropriate ioctl 
> for device"
> 
> I assume that this message means I am either
> specifying the wrong device 
> for the touchscreen or the driver knows it is
> incapable of supporting 
> the particular touchscreen chipset I have. From the
> Windows98 install 
> that the terminal came with, I know it is a
> Microtouch device and does work.
> 
> Anyone got any ideas, suggestions,
> stabs-in-the-dark?
> 
> I'm willing to try just about anything to get this
> to work but I draw 
> the line at spending any money. This project has
> cost enough as it is.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -Penfold
> 
> PS I know this is yet another example of asking more
> questions than I 
> have answered but hopefully anyone with any clues
> will forgive me and 
> help anyway.
> 
> 
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