Forget my message. I did a fresh install of 10.04.04 LTS on a different hard drive, installed the touchscreen driver and it is working on the first log in.
Onto the next problem. :-) Dave On 3/9/2012 3:55 PM, Dave wrote: > I'm looking for advise... > I'm trying to setup a Xenarc 8" touchscreen with Ubuntu 10.04 so I can > use it on a LinuxCNC project. > > This touch screen, and many others from China and Taiwan use a chipset > and components made by this company: > http://home.eeti.com.tw/web20/eg/Touch_Division.html > > The touch screen interface is easily recognized by "eGalax" in all of > the id messages and USB device lists. > > I downloaded the latest driver from here: > http://210.64.17.162/web20/eGalaxTouchDriver/linuxDriver.htm > > The driver works well - but it has a bug. On startup, with logon set > so a user is automatically logged on, the desktop comes up and touch > screen will not function. > > If I plug in a mouse and log off and then back on, the touch screen > works fine. Disabling or enabling the password on logon, makes no > difference. > > Having to plug in a mouse and keyboard to get the touch screen to work > defeats the purpose of having a touch screen in the first place. > > I'd rather use an open source driver for this touch screen, but 10.04 is > known to have some touch screen issues and this touch screen chip set > has real problems with the available linux touch drivers for 10.04. > > I have been conversing with the eeti.com company in Taiwan for the last > 3 days and I don't think I am getting anywhere yet. > > I've scoured the web looking for solutions and have come up empty - > however there are a lot of reports of problems with this screen touch > interface and 10.04 using the open source drivers. > > At this point, I am looking for a work around. > > Is there a way that the system could run a script after the initial auto > logon to log the user out and then back in? > > That would probably get around this driver issue. > > Any other ideas?? > > Thanks, > > Dave Cole (Dave911 on the IRC) > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization& Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
