HOWTO : eGalax Touch Screen on Ubuntu 10.04

[Mr P.S]

I think you missed the following command :

sudo update-grub

Samiux

Hi.
I have updated grub and reboot and the touchscreen will not respond.
I restart the computer and try calibrate touchscreen.
Do I get error message: No calibratable devices found

Does it matter if I have device 004?
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0eef:0001 D-WAV Scientific Co., Ltd eGalax TouchScreen
I think you have device 005

Peter

[samiux]

Hi.
I have updated grub and reboot and the touchscreen will not respond.
I restart the computer and try calibrate touchscreen.
Do I get error message: No calibratable devices found

Does it matter if I have device 004?
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0eef:0001 D-WAV Scientific Co., Ltd eGalax TouchScreen
I think you have device 005

Peter

Sorry, I have no idea about that.

Does your touch screen work on Windows?

Samiux

[samiux]

Hi.
I have updated grub and reboot and the touchscreen will not respond.
I restart the computer and try calibrate touchscreen.
Do I get error message: No calibratable devices found

Does it matter if I have device 004?
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0eef:0001 D-WAV Scientific Co., Ltd eGalax TouchScreen
I think you have device 005

Peter

Sorry, I have no idea about that.

Does your touch screen work on Windows?

Samiux

[Mr P.S]

Sorry, I have no idea about that.

Does your touch screen work on Windows?

Samiux

Hi

I do not know if it works with windows.

But if I remove the stage 1 and 2
Calibrate the toushscreen
It will works it until I restart the computer.

Is it possible to keep Calibrated touchscreen after reboot.
Without steps 1 and 2?

Thanks a lot for your help / Peter

[miegiel]

Hi

I do not know if it works with windows.

But if I remove the stage 1 and 2
Calibrate the toushscreen
It will works it until I restart the computer.

Is it possible to keep Calibrated touchscreen after reboot.
Without steps 1 and 2?

Thanks a lot for your help / Peter

That is what step 3 does, the /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/05-evdev.conf file gets read as X starts up. Maybe the howto should be more clear on that.

The line

Option "Calibration" "2 4100 11 4099"

sets the calibration. (Replace the calibration values with your own, mine are: 6 4088 0 4092)

[Mr P.S]

That is what step 3 does, the /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/05-evdev.conf file gets read as X starts up. Maybe the howto should be more clear on that.

The line

Option "Calibration" "2 4100 11 4099"

sets the calibration. (Replace the calibration values with your own, mine are: 6 4088 0 4092)

Hi.
I have add my own values:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "eGalax"
MatchProduct "eGalax"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "SwapAxes" "off"
Option "Calibration" "1965 85 209 1892"

If I follow the steps 1-3 and rebot.
I restart the computer and try calibrate touchscreen.
Do I get error message: No calibratable devices found
and the touchscreen will not respond

But if I remove the stage 1 and 2
Calibrate the toushscreen
It will works it until I restart the computer.
After a restart I must do a new calibration

Peter

[miegiel]

Hi.
I have add my own values:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "eGalax"
MatchProduct "eGalax"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "SwapAxes" "off"
Option "Calibration" "1965 85 209 1892"

If I follow the steps 1-3 and rebot.
I restart the computer and try calibrate touchscreen.
Do I get error message: No calibratable devices found
and the touchscreen will not respond

But if I remove the stage 1 and 2
Calibrate the toushscreen
It will works it until I restart the computer.
After a restart I must do a new calibration

Peter

Doing Step 3 makes you load your touchscreen settings during boot. So that makes sense

Do you really need to calibrate?

See if you can find what calibration values other EEE PC 900 owners use. If the calibration values you use work and are accurate your tablet is calibrated. Also, compiling a calibration tool might not be the best way for you to calibrate your screen. There are other ways. I just read the calibration values to use from the terminal with evtest.

X axis calibration

evtest /dev/input/by-id/usb-eGalax_Inc._USB_TouchController-event-if00 | grep "code 53"

Y axis calibration

evtest /dev/input/by-id/usb-eGalax_Inc._USB_TouchController-event-if00 | grep "code 54"

You might need to change the path to the device and | grep "code 53" and | grep "code 54" might not work for you (try cutting it off or changing the numbers). ps use Ctrl+C to exit evtest.

[Mr P.S]

[QUOTE=miegiel;10377350]Doing Step 3 makes you load your touchscreen settings during boot. So that makes sense

Do you really need to calibrate?

See if you can find what calibration values other EEE PC 900 owners use. If the calibration values you use work and are accurate your tablet is calibrated. Also, compiling a calibration tool might not be the best way for you to calibrate your screen. There are other ways. I just read the calibration values to use from the terminal with evtest.

Finally working my touchscreen.
I do not really know what was wrong.
But I did the following:

1 Added the command:
Edited / etc / modules, realize things

Code:
usbtouchscreen
usbhid

2 Clearing my hard drive.
Uninstalled XInput and something more.
and rebooted

3 Followed Samuax guide.

"lsusb" shows the following :
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0eef:0001 D-WAV Scientific Co., Ltd eGalax TouchScreen
Step 1 :
Boot up the system and press "Ctrl+Alt+F2" to go to command prompt.
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
Append "i8042.noloop=1 usbhid.quirks=0xeef:0x1:0x40" to "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT".
*where i8042.noloop=1 solves the touchpad probem.
It will look like this :
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i8042.noloop=1 usbhid.quirks=0xeef:0x1:0x40"
Save and exit.
sudo update-grub
Step 2 :
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
Append the following to the file.
blacklist usbtouchscreen
Step 3 :
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d
sudo nano /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/05-evdev.conf
Append the following to the file.
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "eGalax"
MatchProduct "eGalax"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "SwapAxes" "off"
Option "Calibration" "2 4100 11 4099"
EndSection
The value of calibration is "2 4100 11 4099" is perfect on my Gigabyte TouchNote T1028X (resolution 1366 x 768). However, you can change the value after doing Step 6 when necessary.
Step 4 :
The current version of xinput-calibrator is 0.7.5 at the time of this writing.
wget https://github.com/downloads/tias/xinpu … 1_i386.deb --no-check-certificate
sudo dpkg -i xinput-calibrator_0.7.5-1ubuntu1_i386.deb
Step 5 :
Reboot your system.
Step 6 (Optional) :
To calibration your system and edit the value to Step 3 when necessary.
xinput_calibrator
Step 7 (Optional) :
Get uTouch (Multi-touch). However, this netbook does not support multi-touch. The following procedure does not causing harm to your system anyway.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:utouch-team/utouch
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install utouch
Testing program.
sudo apt-get install python-pymt
python /usr/share/pymt-examples/launcher-multi.py
python /usr/share/pymt-examples/games/bubblebattles/bubblebatte.py
That's all! See you.
Posted by Samiux at 09:00
Labels: eGalax, Gigabyte T1028X, Ubuntu, uTouch

I had inverted axes x and y
There I solved this:

Option "SwapAxes" "1"

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "calibration"
MatchProduct "eGalax Inc. Touch"
Option "Calibration" "1876 116 1719 101"
EndSection

Thanks for the help

[michelepolo]

Thanks people, issue resolved

did the following...

Created the following file...
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-calibration.conf

and pasted the following set of snippets that threw up after calibration.

----------------------------------
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "calibration"
MatchProduct "eGalax Inc. Touch"
Option "Calibration" "1947 137 139 1755"
Option "SwapAxes" "1"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "calibration"
MatchProduct "eGalax Inc. Touch"
Option "Calibration" "139 1949 1750 134"
EndSection
----------------------------------

and Wallah !!! my calibration got set permanently

thanks Samiux for your wiki, i managed to get my modded eeepc 701 touch screen! (ubuntu 10.04)

one thing seems different, i added your 99-calibration.conf but just the very first section, not the second
and also i excluded 10-evtouch.conf that i have on the same directory

my advice is to run xinput_calibration a couple of times, and tune the output

thanks!
michele

[jgeissin]

New hardware, same driver/problem:
ASUS PC (486), Ubuntu 10.04, patched to date, no-name 17" touchscreen monitor, POSX USB point of sale printer (USB), HP USB keyboard, Logitech USB mouse, Symbol USB barcode scanner.

Y axis is OK, poke your finger at the screen and the mouse goes there (center of the screen). Up and down follows; side to side is reversed.

uname -a: Linux POPOS1 2.6.32-30-generic-pae #59-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 23:01:33 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
lsmod:
Module Size Used by
snd_hda_codec_analog 58598 1
binfmt_misc 6587 1
fbcon 35102 71
tileblit 2031 1 fbcon
font 7557 1 fbcon
bitblit 4707 1 fbcon
softcursor 1189 1 bitblit
vga16fb 11385 0
vgastate 8961 1 vga16fb
ppdev 5259 0
snd_hda_intel 22133 2
snd_hda_codec 74201 2 snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 5412 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss 35308 0
snd_mixer_oss 13746 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 70918 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 1338 0
snd_seq_oss 26722 0
snd_seq_midi 4557 0
snd_rawmidi 19056 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6003 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 47263 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
snd_timer 19098 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 5700 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
i915 288290 3
joydev 8740 0
drm_kms_helper 29329 1 i915
snd 54180 16 snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,s nd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq _oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
psmouse 63245 0
drm 163034 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
usblp 10481 0
usbhid 36206 0
asus_atk0110 9017 0
usbtouchscreen 8073 0
hid 67096 1 usbhid
soundcore 6620 1 snd
lp 7028 0
serio_raw 3978 0
intel_agp 24671 2 i915
agpgart 31788 2 drm,intel_agp
i2c_algo_bit 5028 1 i915
snd_page_alloc 7172 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
video 17375 1 i915
output 1871 1 video
parport 32635 2 ppdev,lp
r8169 34364 0
mii 4381 1 r8169

lsusb:
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0eef:0001 D-WAV Scientific Co., Ltd eGalax TouchScreen
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 05e0:1200 Symbol Technologies DS6608 Bar Code Scanner
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c045 Logitech, Inc. Optical Mouse
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03f0:0024 Hewlett-Packard KU-0316 Keyboard
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0525:a700 Netchip Technology, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

05-evdev.conf:
# Catchall classes for input devices
# We don't simply match on any device since that also adds accelerometers
# and other devices that we don't really want to use. The list below
# matches everything but joysticks.

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "eGalax"
MatchProduct "EVTouch TouchScreen"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "InvertX" "1"
Option "Calibration" "1435 183 217 1138"
EndSection

99-calibration.conf:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "calibration"
MatchProduct "eGalax Inc. Touch"
Option "Calibration" "1947 137 139 1755"
Option "InvertX" "1"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "calibration"
MatchProduct "eGalax Inc. Touch"
Option "Calibration" "1435 183 217 1138"
EndSection

PS. What happened to xorg.conf????
Thanks!
Jon G