Dear All, we had to install a different distribution of Ubuntu than the one given by FriendlyARM on our mini6410 for several reasons. We are not able to activate the touch screen function. Could somebody give us an help on which components/driver are necessary and how install and configure them? Thank you a lot. F.
First, you have to check respons yours Touchscreen: cat /dev/input/eventX If you touch the screen, should be some garbage output. If this is OK remove Synaptics Driver: sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-input-synaptics Install tslib: sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-tslib libts-bin Calibrate Touchscreen: TSLIB_TSDEVICE=/dev/input/eventX TSLIB_CONFFILE=/etc/ts.conf export TSLIB_TSDEVICE TSLIB_CONFFILE ts_calibrate After calibration process restart the X-Server. Probably everything will be ok :D Łukasz Skalski www.lukasz-skalski.com
thank you skalsius88 I have 2 problems when I try your procedure: 1. I find the touchscreen event executing cat /dev/touchscreen-1wire and not on cat /dev/input/eventX 2. when I execute ts_calibrate I receive this error ts_open: not a directory I've created the rootfs packet through rootstock and on boot the system execute this code #! /bin/sh export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin if [ ! -s /etc/pointercal ] ; then mkdir /dev/input 2>/dev/null mknod /dev/input/event1 c 13 64 2>/dev/null mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0 2>/dev/null mknod /dev/touchscreen c 10 180 2>/dev/null mknod /dev/touchscreen-1wire c 10 181 2>/dev/null mknod /dev/s3c2410_serial3 c 204 67 2>/dev/null ts_cal mv /pointercal /etc fi exec /sbin/init : obviously the "ts_cal" command fail because is not found! where is my mistake?
You need the 'one-wire-ts-input' module from FA to be able to work with the tslib and the '/dev/touchscreen-1wire'. The '/dev/input/eventX' method only works if you are running a regular mainline kernel.
Where can I find this module? Where should I put it? Is it a problem of kernel compilation? Could you please explain to me the steps to do? I downloaded all the documentation about the mini6410 FA board but I can't find instructions on how to proceed.
Dear Juergen, we worked around a bit and fixed some things. Now we are freezed again in a trouble that we discovered other people here experienced and still haven't fixed. This is what get now: everything seems to work correctly during the first boot on which the (graphical) calibration starts, but when we reboot after the first boot/calibration the event of touch screen is not captured anymore or even not generated. If we try to run manually by prompt command the calibration procedure after the first calibration boot this gives an error. It's very strange because the first and the next boot processes are the same and so seem to be the environment variables: the only difference between the first boot and the next ones is an "if" that just launch the calibration procedure by the same boot. Therefore, we cannot understand why the command of the calibration works just when it is evocated by the first boot and not when we launch the same command manually by the terminal? Why the event of thouched screen is not detected? Every suggestion could help. Thanks. Federico and Daniele.