2009/2/26 axel lin <[email protected]>: > hi Rusty, > > 2009/2/20 Rusty Lynch <[email protected]>: >> On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 15:49 -0700, axel lin wrote: >>> hi, >>> I found /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not exist in Moblin2. >>> How to config X to add a touchscreen driver? >> >> Correct, we do not create/install an X config file so that X will auto >> detect the hardware and configure itself. >> >> In cases where I needed a config (like to configure the touchscreen >> since I have not found a way of doing this without an xorg.conf), then I >> create on on the device via: >> >> $ Xorg -configure >> >> ... and then tweak the file and move it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf or copy it >> to some device specific configuration package and then craft a device >> specific kickstart that installs all the normal packages and then this >> new configuration package. >> >> >> But... that sure seems like a hack. >> >> Any X guys listening? Is there some kind of an X interface that can >> configure a touch screen at run-time making it possible to dynamically >> configure the hardware at session startup without having to resort to >> installing device specific configuration files? >> >> >>> >>> My touchscreen is "eGalax TouchScreen" ( 0eef:0001 ). >>> In moblin v1, the evtouch driver works. But I cannot find the evtouch >>> driver in Moblin2 yum repository. >> >> I'll let someone concentrating on the kernel answer this, but IIRC >> evtouch was one of those projects that never attempted to push their >> code into Linus' kernel which means somebody would have had to >> explicitly packaged the out-of-tree kernel driver. > > I don't get it. > I thought the evtouch driver is a X input module. > I cannot find evtouch driver package in Fedora and Moblin2 yum > repository. ( Like the xserver-xorg-input-evtouch package in ubuntu > ). > In Fedora 10 and Moblin2, I cannot successfully compile evtouch source code > from http://www.conan.de/touchscreen/evtouch.html.
I suppose it is outdated. You can use the evdev driver on the X side (it is in moblin already), but you will need a kernel driver for the touchscreen and a xorg.conf file. I'm using a USB tablet this way. Cheers _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
