how to get elographics touchscreen driver working?

[Cliff Brake]

Is there a touch driver that is maintained and known to be working
with xserver v1.4 that I could use as a reference?

Thanks,
Cliff

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Cliff Brake <cliff.brake at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to get the elographics touchscreen input driver working.
>  It worked some time ago with:
>
>  xserver-xorg-X11R7.1-1.1.0-r0
>  xf86-input-elographics X11R7.0-1.0.0.5-r0
>
>  I'm currently running xorg-xserver 1.4 and the 1.1.0 and 1.2.0 version
>  of the elographics driver.  My xorg.conf is:
>
>  Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier "Touchscreen1"
>         Driver     "elographics"
>         Option     "Device"     "/dev/ttyS0"
>         Option     "AlwaysCore"
>         Option     "screeno"    "0"
>
>          Option        "MinX"        "3508"
>          Option        "MaxX"        "624"
>          Option        "MinY"        "3526"
>          Option        "MaxY"        "588"
>
>         Option     "SwapXY" "0"
>         Option     "UntouchDelay" "3"
>         Option     "ReportDelay" "1"
>         Option         "DebugLevel"        "5"
>  EndSection
>
>  Am I missing anything in the xorg.conf?
>
>  The debug log from X is:
>
>  Entering ReadInput
>  Entering xf86EloGetPacket with checksum == 170 and buffer_p == 0
>  buffer_p is 0, Trying to read 10 bytes from link
>  Read 10 bytes
>   0x55-->0xFF  0x54-->0x53  0x2-->0x55  0x29-->0x7E  0x9-->0x87
>  0x29-->0xB0  0x6-->0xB6  0xFF-->0xB5  0x0-->0xB5 Expecting checksum
>  181, got 181
>  EloConvert Before Fix: Screen(0) - x(-1212166420), y(0)
>  EloConvert: Screen(0) - v0(2345), v1(1577)
>  EloConvert: Screen(0) - x(258), y(162)
>  EloConvert During Fix: Screen(0) - x(258), y(162)
>  EloConvert After Fix: Screen(0) - x(258), y(162)
>  TouchScreen: x(2345), y(1577), Stream
>  Entering ReadInput
>  Entering xf86EloGetPacket with checksum == 170 and buffer_p == 0
>  buffer_p is 0, Trying to read 10 bytes from link
>  Read 10 bytes
>   0x55-->0xFF  0x54-->0x53  0x2-->0x55  0x2A-->0x7F  0x9-->0x88
>  0x28-->0xB0  0x6-->0xB6  0xFF-->0xB5  0x0-->0xB5 Expecting checksum
>  181, got 181
>  EloConvert Before Fix: Screen(0) - x(-1212166420), y(0)
>  EloConvert: Screen(0) - v0(2346), v1(1576)
>  EloConvert: Screen(0) - x(257), y(162)
>  EloConvert During Fix: Screen(0) - x(257), y(162)
>  EloConvert After Fix: Screen(0) - x(257), y(162)
>  TouchScreen: x(2346), y(1576), Stream
>
>  The above numbers look good so the touch driver is getting valid data,
>  it just not seem to be getting sent to X properly.
>
>  with the 1.1.0 version of the driver, a USB mouse still works fine.
>  With the 1.2.0 version of the elographics driver, the USB mouse quits
>  working after the first touchscreen touch.
>
>  I am starting to debug and would appreciate any pointers as to how to
>  debug this problem, what to look for, etc.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Cliff
>
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>  Cliff Brake
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>



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