X and Fluxbox :: X and touchscreen

Hi,
I have a Geode system with a touchscreen (Penmount) that runs "successfully" on Fedora Core 3.

Having experimented with DSL on other computers I was wondering if it's possible to set up a touchscreen in the X server that DSL uses?

Thanks,
Peter

If it works with Xfree86 on other distros, then it should work on XFree86 for DSL.

If it does not work with the builtin DSL TinyX Kdrive X servers, you will need to download and install the xfree86.dsl extension.

Thanks,

From the info I found TinyX doesn't seem to have a config file like xorg.conf/XF86Config and since setting up the touchscreen requires som editing of that file, including loading a module, it can't be done with TinyX server.

I will try installing xfree86 dsl extention and see if I can get it to work that way.

Thanks again,
Peter

Update:

I have installed XFree86.dsl on a frugal grub HDD install (using toram) and it works fine.

The XFree86 has drivers for a lot of input stuff including penmount. I haven't got the touchscreen working yet even though I did the same changes to XF86Config file as in the FC3 installation. The touchscreen is connected to ttyS0.

If anyone has any ideas don't hold back :-)

Best,
Peter

FC3 uses xorg and not XFree - maybe that could be the explanation? A long shot in the dark: could you boot with Knoppix and if that works (I would guess it's not likely) then you could copy over that config file.

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