Thanks Keywan,

That site worked well for me on Mint, however the appliance CentOS 6.4 did
not have inputattach :-)

Good to know about not unplugging the serial connection.

Thanks

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> Am Freitag, den 12.09.2014, 11:03 -0400 schrieb Richard Gorbutt:
>
>
> > Acquired an ELO Touchscreen, serial connection. Having some fun trying
> > to get CentOS 6.4 to see the serial connection. Wiki shows just
> > modprobe -elo then inputattach, how no evidence that I have
> > inputattach as part of CentOS 6.4, Google not that much help either.
> >
>
> This Link was helpful for me:
> http://who-t.blogspot.de/2012/07/elographics-touchscreen-setup.html
>
> As fred mentioned:
>
> - load module via:  modprobe elo
> - run inputtattch: inputattach -elo /dev/ttyS0 --daemon
>
> You could add a rule for udev,
> e.g. /etc/udev/rules.d/99-elographics.rules
>
> This is my rules file:
> #################### Start file 99-elographics.rules ##################
> ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEM=="tty|pnp", KERNEL=="ttyS0", RUN
> +="/sbin/modprobe elo", \
> RUN+="/lib/udev/inputattach -elo /dev/%k --daemon", \
> ENV{ID_INPUT}="1", ENV{ID_INPUT_TOUCHSCREEN}="1"
> #######################################################################
>
> But be aware, that you shouldn't start the host without the touchscreen
> attached to the serial port. I did that and my logs was bloating up to
> 5GB, because of inputattach error messages.
>
> Maybe this link is helpful as well:
>
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Attaching_serial_input_devices_to_the_kernel_input_system
>
> Best
>
> Keywan
>
>
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