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 > > > -- > Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni <[email protected]> > http://www.prometoys.net > > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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