Hi there,
I'm trying to configure a 4-pin Serial Microtouch touchscreen in
Debian. I didn't meet with much success using the native X drivers, so
I thought I would try gpm, especially since there seemed to be a nice
calibration program.
After trying many different configurations of XF86Config-4 and gpm, with
no success, I downloaded gpmsumma_drv.o and placed it in
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input.
Next, I configured XF86Config-4 as:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "gpmsumma"
Option "Type" "finger"
Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata"
Option "Mode" "Absolute"
Option "Cursor" "Puck"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
...
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
...
EndSection
with gpm set with 'gpm -Rsumma -t mtouch -m /dev/ttyS0'
I can get movement with the touchscreen in both the console and
Xwindows, but when I run gpm-microtouch-setup to calibrate in X, it
makes it through the first two steps to create the red crosses, but then
gpm psuedo-crashes. It stops responding and even stopping and
restarting the daemon will not restore it. Only a full reboot will
bring gpm back online.
As a side note, I am running X on a LCD display with a counter clockwise
90 degree rotation.
Thanks for your help,
Rog