[Emc-users] Fun and games with Ubuntu 10.04 and touch screen

2010-09-28 Thread Steve Blackmore
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

Re: [Emc-users] Fun and games with Ubuntu 10.04 and touch screen

2010-09-28 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Steve, Reminiscent of PNP on another operating system huh? If it works automagically it is great - if it doesn't work automagically it may never work. I have been working with Keytec for two weeks to get a serial magic touch screen to work with 10.04. Keytec wrote a new driver because they only

Re: [Emc-users] Fun and games with Ubuntu 10.04 and touch screen

2010-09-28 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Steve, The xorg.conf file and the description of the changes seem to identical to what I saw. This is the instruction file Keytec sent me to create the xorg.conf file. It worked without a hitch. I will use this for other touchscreens also.

Re: [Emc-users] Fun and games with Ubuntu 10.04 and touch screen

2010-09-28 Thread Jon Elson
Stuart Stevenson wrote: I have been working with Keytec for two weeks to get a serial magic touch screen to work with 10.04. Keytec wrote a new driver because they only had drivers for 64 bit system. The driver loaded and worked but the calibration is not correct. Keytec's calibration routine

Re: [Emc-users] Fun and games with Ubuntu 10.04 and touch screen

2010-09-28 Thread Stuart Stevenson
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: Stuart Stevenson wrote: I have been working with Keytec for two weeks to get a serial magic touch screen to work with 10.04. Keytec wrote a new driver because they only had drivers for 64 bit system. The driver

Re: [Emc-users] Fun and games with Ubuntu 10.04 and touch screen

2010-09-28 Thread Jon Elson
Stuart Stevenson wrote: New Keytec touch screens are USB. The USB drivers seem to work better. I purchased all the ones I have on ebay. I am not sure what size they have. I will have to look around. Right now it is kind of academic, as Axis is not really touch-friendly, and Touchy doesn't