On 9/28/2010 Steve Blackmore wrote: > Managed to get my serial connected 3M touch screen working (sort of) > with Ubuntu 10.04 after several days of cursing and restarts. > > It would appear that they tried to be clever and introduce support for > netbooks and the like and dropped the old xorg.conf by default and > recognize everything automatically, with pretty disastrous results. > > They have since "fixed" some of the problems that introduced, > unfortunately only on updates from 10.04.1 > > And they are messing with it again > fromhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config > > "Files ending in *.conf in the/usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory > (NOTE: will be changed to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d for 10.10) are > automatically loaded by X at start prior to reading the xorg.conf" > > How I managed to get mine to work, I'm not wholly sure. My new xorg.conf > bears no resemblance to my old one and I still have a problem on > startup. > > On first startup, touch screen doesn't work. Logout and log on again and > it does! > Steve:
I'm encouraged that you're making progress since I'm about to embark on a similar venture with Nano-X and my Infocast. You need to direct at least some of your frustration toward the x.org folks. Ubuntu, like many other Linux distributions, mostly just packages the x.org ouvre, and the distribution maintainers are having their own problems keeping up. I know I have trouble putting out of my mind the now irrelevant details I learned about X back in the day of Unix workstations. I'm a true believer in open-source software, but sometimes I think it's a miracle anything useful has resulted. To quote a Dilbert T-shirt I used to own, "how did people ever look busy before computers?" Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
