Difference between revisions of "ELO touchscreen"

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Above mentioned solution for Linuxmce 7.10 RC1 and above + ELO 1545L does not work.

In that case you need to uninstall elo driver, provided above (or make a clean install – worked in my case) and use following how-to:

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Elo Touch Screen Intelli Touch (USB) <o:p></o:p>

1.-Sources, and an incomplete tutorial can be found here:
<a href="http://stz-softwaretechnik.com/%7Eke/touchscreen/evtouch.html" target="_blank">http://stz-softwaretechnik.com/~ke/t...n/evtouch.html</a>

Basic installation is copied from the website, but added my monitor's right values for xorg.conf, and udev-rules so the right events are triggered.

2.-The specs of the monitor I used, plus my PC specs:<o:p></o:p>

• Elo Touch Screen monitor with IntelliTouch (Surface Acoustic Wave). Model 1939L, I used USB although monitor also has Serial interface.<o:p></o:p>
• Linux ubuntu 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Sun Sep 23 19:50:39 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux<o:p></o:p>
• Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn<o:p></o:p>
• CPU: Intel P4 3Ghz with HT<o:p></o:p>

3.-Why this guide?
This guide is meant to help people install touch screen monitors that use IntelliTouch technology (Surface Acoustic Wave), hopefully, other technologies will also work, although I don't have the hardware to test it. This guide was also meant to complement the source's website, as it lacked right values for Elo Touch monitor, and tutorial didn't mention udev-rules, which are needed to set the right handlers for the linux kernel.

4.-Things you need:
I used the precompiled binaries, you can find them in the website I mentioned in the first point. The latest at the time I'm writing this is:

Precompiled driver for X V0.8.7

Also, you will need to copy udev-rules, the file you need can be found also in the same website, inside a sources tarball:

X driver sources V0.8.4

5.-Installation
Download precompiled binaries.<o:p></o:p>

Code:<o:p></o:p>

Open /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add this lines:<o:p></o:p>

Code:<o:p></o:p>

If Min/Max values don't work correctly for you, you'll have to adjust that values manually (calibration application doesn't work, the author of the sources himself has stated that, at least at the writing of this how to).

Now search for "ServerLayout" section in the same file, and add this lines just before EndSection<o:p></o:p>

Code:<o:p></o:p>

Note that Section "InputDevice" with Identifier "dummy" and InputDevice "dummy" are only needed if you use xorg > 7.2.

Next, you have to find your monitors name:<o:p></o:p>

Code:<o:p></o:p>

you'll get something like this:<o:p></o:p>

Code:<o:p></o:p>

Next, you have to add udev-rules to your system, download and extract "X driver sources V0.8.4":<o:p></o:p>

Code:<o:p></o:p>

Modify 69-touchscreen.rules file for your monitor, check the bold letters (or if you are using the same monitor as me, I will paste my file for you):<o:p></o:p>

Code:<o:p></o:p>

Now, copy the file to /etc/udev/rules.d/

That should be it, restart your system, and it should work.<o:p></o:p>

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