> 
> Hi Chris - I finally got this to work, I gave up with
> mutouch! I
> downloaded the 3M driver, searched online in linux forums,
> found how to
> unpack and install, after several attempts, I finally got
> it to work.

Could you kindly shed some light on this, I have been a long way down that oute 
too but si far w/o success

> The only use the mutouch program had, was it told me which
> file the
> parameters live in :)
> 
> The Axis screen isn't very touch screen friendly so I still
> need a mouse
> to do some tasks. The biggest problem is the small sliders
> for jog and
> feed speed, the jog one's a pain when initially setting up
> a job. A
> Shift/Jog for rapids would help enormously here, so only
> the slow jog
> speed need be set for the final touch move.

I totally agree with you, axis is really not set up for touch operations like 
feed, jogging and touching off. But there is one great thing to get this done 
imho the "royal" way: use a wireless joypad (mine is still on its way to me, so 
I use a USB logitech joypad for the time being)! I have it set up like this:

http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Simple_Remote_Pendant
using this hal file with minor change:
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?A_New_Approach_For_Using_Joypads_With_EMC2
look at the bottom for "upload:joypad_v3.hal"

The very ingenous way to jog is, it is progressive. The more analog stick you 
give it, the faster it moves. Just great and would not like to miss it anymore!

> Once touched off, the run/pause/stop buttons are fine. For
> manual stuff
> the spindle controls are also a bit small, there's enough
> free space
> around them so I assume they could be made bigger?

I guess so, but I still have buttons free in my joypad. So I will set the 
joypad up to play them once I got some time. I will publish the modified file 
here when done.

greets chris

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