MagicTouch Touchscreens w/DSLForum: DSL Tips and Tricks Topic: MagicTouch Touchscreens w/DSL started by: IzzySmith Posted by IzzySmith on Feb. 18 2006,01:12
----------------------------------------------------------------------MagicTouch Touchscreen for DSL Linux F.A.Q. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE: This is not official documentation from KeyTec™ these are just notes I as an individual have come up with and taken from the official driver help that comes with the MagicTouch CD. Basically I thought the readme docs sucked and this should be more helpful. Particularly if you're using D.S.L (Damn Small Linux) This FAQ is for users of D.S.L. (Damn Small Linux) although, this could technically be applied to just about any Debian distro easily and others somewhat. I believe D.S.L. works well with getting MagicTouch. It uses kernel 2.4 to support legacy devices for one thing, a 2.6 kernel might not load the MagicTouch drivers (I could be wrong about that) Also the hid and usb-uhci which are used by usbcore make the USB-X easy to get working right off the bat. You should know I haven't really tried this with the ProE-X. Also I have successfully done this in RAMDISK/toram mode, however, its easier if you only modify the user "dsl" as opposed to trying to get it working with root, if only because default setting files (such as BASHRC) havent been created. ------------------- STEP ONE - XFree86: ------------------- The drivers included by KeyTec are made for Xfree86 and not for Xvesa or other derivitives unfortunately without what I believe to be massive tweaking, altho I have seen a X.org experimental deb package available for magictouch screens. Anyways... Basically download the XFree86.dsl package from the System DSL packages and follow those directions. You will change your .xserverrc file and you will also use the XF86Config-4 file below. -------------------------------- STEP TWO - Directories and Files -------------------------------- mkdir /etc/etandt mkdir /touchscreen touch /etc/etandt/ts.ini touch /etc/etandt/s_ts.ini FOR USB-X: ========== mkdir /dev/usb/hid mknod /dev/usb/hiddev0 c 180 96 mknod /dev/usb/hiddev1 c 180 97 mknod /dev/usb/hiddev2 c 180 98 mknod /dev/usb/hiddev3 c 180 99 cp /cdrom/Linux/USB/* /touchscreen NOTE: In TORAM/ramdisk mode, create the nodes in /touchscreen and modify the entry in XF86Config-4 accordingly. FOR PROE-X: ========== cp /cdrom/Linux/PROE/* /touchscreen ------------------------------------------- STEP THREE: The XF86Config-4 File ------------------------------------------- <BEGIN> Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "VESA device" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "etouch" "SendCoreEvents" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" DontZap AllowMouseOpenFail EndSection Section "Files" FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "dri" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" #Option "XkbVariant" "" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "etouch" Driver "etouch_usb" Option "Device" "/dev/usb/hid/hiddev0" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "imPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "vesa" driver "vesa" VendorName "x" BoardName "y" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "x" ModelName "y" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "vesa" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection <END> ------------------------------------- STEP FOUR: Module Installation ------------------------------------- cd /touchscreen FOR USB-X: =========== cp etouch_usb_drv.o /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/ FOR PROE-X: =========== cp magictouch_drv.o /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/ ---------------------- STEP FIVE: Calibration ---------------------- Restart X-Windows In X-Windows Run tscpl_usb or tscpl for usb and proe devices respectively to calibrate the screen. -------------------------- STEP FIVE: Troubleshooting -------------------------- - DO NOT use Virtual Desktop (calibration will not be accurate) - DO make notice of upper/lower cases - Check the /var/log/XFree86.0.log - Also run "dmesg" and check the last couple lines when un/plugging in the MagicTouch Device to see if the USB driver is being loaded correctly. FOR USB-X: ---------- - If you think that the device is not sending data, just make sure everythings connected and run 'cat /dev/usb/hiddev0' and then run your fingers over the screen to see if data shows on the screen. - In dmesg check to see if its hiddev0 being used and not hiddev1 or 2, in which case you'll have to change the device location in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 You can contact tech@magictouch.com for troubleshooting. You can also contact me at falthonas@comcast.net although I'm not too sure how much I'll be able to help out. Posted by doobit on Feb. 18 2006,01:42
Very nice. Worth putting in the documentation.
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