On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 12:04:57PM +0200, Bernhard Prell wrote: > Hello all, > > I am completely new to this list and want to apologize if I violate some > written or unwritten law (list etiquette) but I am under great (time) > pressure. > > Today I updated a linux installation to xorg 1.7 (the distribution is gentoo > btw.) and was confronted with a message that support for the elographics > driver was dropped. I tried to find out more and read on an OpenSolaris page > that no one in the world is interested in this anymore and that there are no > maintainers for it. First let me say that you can still easily buy touch- > controllers and touch-monitors from Elotouch that need this driver. And the > company that I work for still builds kiosk-like systems with this touch- > controller and will do so for at least the next five years...
Elographics touchscreens are supported in the (linux) kernel now. Supposing you have a serial touchscreen, check out the inputattach utility that allows you to attach the serial device to the input subsystem of the kernel: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/dtor/inputattach.c (should also be shipped by your distribution, perhaps in the joystick package) run it with --help for more information. Kind regards, Tias _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
