Yeah, do we need to rebuild the kernel to remove the touch functionality?

On Tuesday, April 8, 2014 12:20:23 PM UTC-3, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to also use the BeagleBone ADC along with an LCD screen that 
> has touch functionality. I've decided that the touch functionality isn't 
> important and would rather disable it to give me full access to the 
> internal ADC. The screen is the 4DCape-43T. I would like a little bit of 
> guidance trying to alter the device tree for the LCD to disable the touch 
> functionality. Where is the device tree located for the display? If anyone 
> knows the exact code to change, that would be welcomed advice, also. I am a 
> little inexperienced with the BeagleBone Black, so I'm a little confused 
> about how to do this. It would be a life saver if anyone could help!
>
> Thanks,
> Steven
>
> On Monday, July 15, 2013 5:58:53 AM UTC-5, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
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>> On 7/15/2013 5:42 AM, Will Kostelecky wrote: 
>> > Revisiting this topic...is there any way to disable the touch 
>> > screen drivers for the LCD display thus rendering the AIN pins 
>> > accessable (though reducing the user input to buttons)?   Getting 
>> > an external ADC to work is looking to be non trivial. 
>>
>> You can play with the device tree for the LCD panel and remove the ADC 
>> bits.  You should also be able to make a custom device tree that 
>> supports the touch screen *AND* reading the other three inputs, but 
>> this might involve tweaking some driver code. 
>>
>> ...reviewing the device tree files for the lcd3 and the iio analog 
>> "helper", it looks like you should be able to pretty easily remove the 
>> touchscreen parts from the LCD overlay and roll them into a separate 
>> analog overlay (or add your required analog bits to a custom LCD 
>> overlay), but you'll probably want to review the actual driver code 
>> and make sure it's not doing something stupid. 
>>
>> - -- 
>> Charles Steinkuehler 
>> [email protected] 
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