On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 16:06 +1100, Christopher JS Vance wrote:
> I've been asked to get a particular touchscreen (eGalax usb) going
> before Tuesday next week on Breezy.
>
> The manufacturer has actually provided some Linux software in the way
> of binary bits plus some sources for a number of old rpm-based
> distributions (RH<=9, FC<=3, Mdk<=10), all for XFree86 and a 2.4 kernel.
Yuck.
deb -> alien is surmountable with alien.
Xorg -> XF86 has a good chance of still working -- that's just normal C
linkages, not wacky like the kernel.
2.6 -> 2.4 is problematic. The module loaders are fussy about what
they'll load at the best of times. You might get it to load with 'insmod
-f' or similar, but you might also just crash your computer. Or it might
do nothing, or it might just fail to load.
As horrible as it sounds, I'd be looking at using one of their supported
platforms unless someone knows of a more friendly driver for this piece
of hardware.
Is it this thing:
http://www.egalax.com.tw/eg/drivers.htm
Looks to me like the driver packages they have include source code. Have
you tried building it to see what happens?
James.
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