Thread: Getting my Touch Screen to work

I has the same issue with Linuxice. Egalax had some issues. I kept running the application (3-4) times until the window appeared where you can run the calibration software.
You are lucky. I am running LinuxIce with BlackSea skin. everything works great but nghost don't see the media files, no matter what i do.
So i tried to install Meego. It goes as far as "select drive to boot from", but there are no drives listed. linuxice had no issues finding it.
Scratching my head.
Sunil

I guess not a lot of people are using Meego ?

The Meego OS looks great and boots amazingly fast, 17 seconds from a cold boot to the OS up and running.
But unless I get my touch screen working, it will be a waste of time.

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After double checking the install files, I looked in the xorg.conf file. I edited the file and deleted everything, so it was an empty file. I then ran the installer for the driver again.
Rebooted and ran the TouchKit command from terminal, but still got the same error.
I then looked again to make sure all the files were there, I remembered seeing this line in the xorg.conf file.

Option "Parameters" "/var/lib/TouchKit.param"

So I looked in the folder /var/lib/ and there was no file or folder called TouchKit.param ???

I assume it should exist, could this be the problem ??

don't use touchkit. download the latest meego image (1.1.90+) and your touchscreen should work out of the box (assuming it's egalax). If it requires calibration, use xinput2_calibrator to calibrate it. The touchkit drivers are next to garbage.

I am using the in car pc version, my touch screen never worked after the install.

How do I use xinput2_calibrator ?
What is the terminal code ?

Well you say don't use TouchKit, but the built in touch screen function does NOT work and I have no clue how to make it work. I can find nothing on the internet to help, except to ask here, but I'm getting no where.

I think I have figured out the problem with TouchKit. I am using Xorg version 1.9 and TouchKit only goes to 1.7 so the driver most likely will not work.

pod25music,

1st off Meego is still in development -- so all the long term functionality isn't there and the versions produced are aimed at specific platforms, which may not be yours. That said, I have gotten the touchscreen to work (mostly out of the box) by removing a file in the /etc/x11/xorg.conf.d/ folder. The named file is something like tsec.conf (don't quote my I removed it :} ). There should not be any xorg.conf file. All the configurations happen in conf files in the /etc/x11/xorg.conf.d directory. Please don't use the versions of meego from http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/builds/1.1.90/ or http://repo.meego.com/MeeGo/builds/1.1.80/ as a new bug has been introduced with the integration of XInput2 and evtouch (the touchscreen driver being used). See this bug report... https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12777 . If you want to try a relatively recent meego effort, you'll have to look for the archives (the repos are only keeping like the last 5 most recent versions). Which I have to look through my emails to find where that's located.

The file I remove is tsc2007.conf...

Thanks nasa.

I like the look of Meego and it would be a shame to dump it because of my touch screen not working, but having touch screen functionality in a car pc is a must.

I still have no idea how to use the built in touch function of meego. I have found several folders and files relating to touch in the meego folder structure.

I have since tried using the eGalax driver, as that supports xorg 1.9, but I still can't get my touch to work.

I should have also mentioned that I use the Intel Atom mini ITX board.

pod25music,

Since I don't know what things you have installed, removed, touched... This is what I would suggest,

1. download image from here: http://archive.meego.com/MeeGo/build...eego-ivi-ia32/ -- which should be old enough not to have the bug I mentioned.

2. reinstall meego from scratch...

3. Once you boot up into meego, ctrl-alt-f1 into a virtual window

4. login in using root/meego

5. rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/tsc2007.conf

6. reboot and see if you have a touchscreen.

BTW: there is a video somewhere on here with me using meego via a touchscreen....

OK, I shall do that now.

And in my huge search of google trying to find answers, I came across your video.

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Oh and nasa
I don't suppose you know how to increase the text size in terminal ?
Using a 7" screen and terminal makes the text size tiny and almost impossible to read.

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nasa
I made the bootable usb, exactly the same way as the first image.
Booted the comp up and it booted into the meego screen, like before I went straight to install.

It then gave error after error after error and would not install.
And now it won't boot to the meego off the usb. I shall try creating the usb again.