Re: [Xpert]Time to downgrade?
Thanks Joe, and to those who have reassured me that my card would work with the older versions! I've reinstalled 4.0.2 using the SuSE rpms, configured using SaX, added the touchscreen bits to the XF86Config, reinstalled the latest Nvidia drivers and... Works like a dream! A case, I think, of newer isn't necessarily better ;-) (I've had 4.0.2 running one of these touchsreen systems for a couple of months - the one restart was due to a power outage.) Cheers M Joe Krahn wrote: Matthew Smith wrote: I downloaded XF 4.2.0 in order to get the video card working (the version that I had from a SuSE Linux distribution did not work). Unfortunately, the Microtouch hardware now *doesn't* work - I get an error: Unable to query/initialize MicroTouch hardware. (EE) PreInit failed for input device Touch0 (See my post of 2002/04/08). The maintainer of XFree86 XInput has done a poor job with the 4.x series. He has done many complicated and mostly unnecessary changes, with no documentation. He may have some sort of plan, but it seems he has not had the time lately to follow through. MicroTouch may be one of the casualties. Before giving up completely, try to see if the config setting have changed. Next, run XFree with verbose logging (startx -- -logverbose 10). At that level, it wil give you each character read from the serial port. This might indicate what's wrong. Joe Krahn -- Matthew Smith | _ ASCII Ribbon Campaign IT Consultant | ( ) - No HTML/RTF in e-mail Kadina, South Australia | X - No Microsoft docs in e-mail http://www.kbc.net.au | / \ - No vCards Ph: +61 888 212 395 | ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]Time to downgrade?
Hi I have used both XFree86 4.0 and 3.8 (I think) quite happily with my Microtouch touch screen harware. I have built a new machine and the video card supplied (I requested cheapest!) uses a NVidia TNT chip. I downloaded XF 4.2.0 in order to get the video card working (the version that I had from a SuSE Linux distribution did not work). Unfortunately, the Microtouch hardware now *doesn't* work - I get an error: Unable to query/initialize MicroTouch hardware. (EE) PreInit failed for input device Touch0 (See my post of 2002/04/08). My question - should I get an older, easier to drive video card and downgrade XFree86 to a version which I know works with my hardware? Possibly a case of better the devil you know ;-? Cheers M -- Matthew Smith | _ ASCII Ribbon Campaign IT Consultant | ( ) - No HTML/RTF in e-mail Kadina, South Australia | X - No Microsoft docs in e-mail http://www.kbc.net.au | / \ - No vCards Ph: +61 888 212 395 | ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Time to downgrade?
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Matthew Smith wrote: Hi I have used both XFree86 4.0 and 3.8 (I think) quite happily with my Microtouch touch screen harware. I have built a new machine and the video card supplied (I requested cheapest!) uses a NVidia TNT chip. I downloaded XF 4.2.0 in order to get the video card working (the version that I had from a SuSE Linux distribution did not work). Unfortunately, the Microtouch hardware now *doesn't* work - I get an error: Unable to query/initialize MicroTouch hardware. (EE) PreInit failed for input device Touch0 (See my post of 2002/04/08). My question - should I get an older, easier to drive video card and downgrade XFree86 to a version which I know works with my hardware? I assume you mean the TNT2. The TNT hasn't been made for years. Even the TNT2 is a couple years old. The TNT2 should work fine in XFree86 servers as old as 1999. Mark. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
