Touchscreen Fedora Core 2
by Petar Nedyalkov
Hello list,
I have some problems with the configuration and installation of an Elo Systems
touchscreen. Following the instructions on Elo's site at
http://www.elotouch.com/Support/linux.asp I added the needed options in the
xorg.conf file:
<snip>
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Inputdevice "touchscreen1" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection
#########################
# Touchscreen section #
#########################
Section "Inputdevice"
Identifier "touchscreen1"
Driver "elographics"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
Option "AlwaysCore"
Option "screenno" "0"
Option "MinX" "600"
Option "MaxX" "3600"
Option "MinY" "600"
Option "MaxY" "3600"
Option "UntouchDelay" "3"
Option "ReportDelay" "1"
EndSection
</snip>
I detect the touchscreen at /det/ttyS0, but in the Xorg.0.log file I get the
following messages and errors:
<snip>
(II) LoadModule: "elographics"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/elographics_drv.o
(II) Module elographics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 6.7.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.4
(**) Option "AlwaysCore"
(**) TOUCHSCREEN: always reports core events
(**) Elographics X device name: TOUCHSCREEN
(**) Option "ScreenNo" "0"
(**) Elographics associated screen: 0
(**) Option "UntouchDelay" "3"
(**) Elographics untouch delay: 30 ms
(**) Option "ReportDelay" "1"
(**) Elographics report delay: 10 ms
(**) Option "MaxX" "3600"
(**) Elographics maximum x position: 3600
(**) Option "MinX" "600"
(**) Elographics minimum x position: 600
(**) Option "MaxY" "3600"
(**) Elographics maximum y position: 3600
(**) Option "MinY" "600"
(**) Elographics minimum y position: 600
(**) Elographics device will work in Landscape mode
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "TOUCHSCREEN" (type: Elographics
TouchScreen)
//this is repeated a lot of times
(--) Elographics touchscreen is a DuraTouch, connected through a serial link.
(--) The controller is a model E281-2310, firmware revision 1.3.
Unable to change Elographics touchscreen operating mode
Not at the specified rate or model 2310, will continue
Elographics: Dropping one byte in an attempt to synchronize: '
Elographics: Dropping one byte in an attempt to synchronize: '
Elographics: Dropping one byte in an attempt to synchronize: '
Elographics: Dropping one byte in an attempt to synchronize: '
Unable to ask Elographics touchscreen identification
</snip>
Since a touch on the screen is detected at the port, and the server starts -
can you tell me where's my mistake?
Has anyone configured an Elo touchscreen under Fedora Core 2?
Thanks.
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Success: cpuspeed, FC3, PIII-coppermine, 440BX MB
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What I did:
Edit /etc/cpuspeed.conf, modify the DRIVER line to read:
DRIVER="speedstep-smi"
Add module parameters to /etc/modprobe.conf:
#enable speedstep for PIII on 440BX
options speedstep-smi smi_port=0xb2 smi_cmd=0x82 smi_sig=1
The cpuspeed daemon should now start on each reboot and vary processor
speed depending on load. My cpu/MB combo supports 1GHz/700MHz. You can
verify current speed with cat /proc/cpuinfo.
This laptop identifies itself as: Winbook Z1, BIOS 1.06A.
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RE: unable to install FC3
by Stefan Seefeld
hi there,
here's a little followup on my own adventures installing FC3:
I believe to have narrowed down the problem: I'v got a wacom
intuos tablet (usb) which didn't quite work under FC2 (it did
work with FC1 !).
I somehow thought that upgrading to FC3 should fix this, so
I plugged the tablet into the computer when I started the
installation process. It now appears that its a h/w conflict
related to that device that gets into the way, at least I
succeeded setting up FC3 with the tablet being unplugged.
Is this a known issue ? Can I somehow help track the bug down
further (I could submit a bug report but I'm not quite sure
that it's really related to my tablet, so I wanted to check
here before).
Thanks,
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PCI card not being detected
by Paul Kopacz
Hi all,
I have a problem that I think is hardware based, but since people here
seem to know something about everything, I thought someone might be
able to give me some advice:
I have a PCI modem which I have attempted to install into a box with
an ECS P6LX-A+ motherboard. This computer does not seem to detect
this card (as in lspci does not list the card). I have a SCSI
controller, a video card, and an ethernet card in the other 3 PCI
ports on this board. I have tried different slots, even tried
removing the ethernet card entirely to see if there is some sort of
conflict (I can't remove the video card for obvious reasons nor the
SCSI card as I then couldn't boot). The PCI modem is not fried, as
putting it into another computer and running lspci shows:
00:0d.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics LT WinModem (rev 02)
(Yes I know this is a winmodem, but there are linux drivers).
Any help anyone can give me (even if it's directing me to a forum
where a question like this would be more appropriate) would be very
much appreciated.
Thanks.
Paul Kopacz
19 years, 6 months
Re: failure to boot
by Gerhard H. W. May
> James Wilkinson suggested:
>
> You might as well switch back the # IDE: it won't make much difference.
>
> Take a look at lines 209 to 216:
>
>> echo -n $" audio"
>>
>> # Everything else (duck and cover)
>> for module in $other ; do
>> load_module $module
>> done
>>
>> echo -n $" done"
>
> "echo" displays things on screen. You can see the "audio" coming up,
> but
> not the "done". (They're using pretty massive indirection here, which
> is what's getting me confused).
>
> So can you put something like
> echo "other is $other"
> at about line 209. And take a look at what else is being loaded.
Done that. It displays:
"other is snd-intel8x0m i8xx_tco hw_random uhci-hcd uhci-hcd
yenta_socket yenta_socket yenta_socket"
But then it hangs.
> Actually, you might try just commenting out lines 212 to 214: depending
> on exactly what is in $other, you'll probably lose some functionality,
> but you might get further.
Done that (left the echo "other is $other" in). It gets past the "other
etc." line I wrote above, then prints
[ok] done
Then flashes up some more messages which are too fast for me to see (is
there a way of slowing this down or scrolling through it afterwards?),
then goes into that graphical launcher with the image of a computer. It
hangs at the line
"Starting pcmcia:"
That made me somewhat suspicious and I took the D-Link DWL-660 wireless
card out of the pcmcia slot and repeated the procedure. However, same
result. By the way, I don't have the machine connected to the internet
while doing all that, I hope that is acceptable.
> Failing that, around there you can put
> echo "got here"
> lines pretty well where you want. See if you can tell exactly which
> line
> causes the boot script to fail.
I added 'echo' statement so that the script now reads:
---------------------------
# Everything else (duck and cover)
echo -n " done that number 1"
for module in $other ; do
echo -n " done that number 2"
load_module $module >/dev/null 2>&1
echo -n " done that number 3"
done
echo -n " done that number 4"
echo -n $" done"
----------------------------
When starting up, it prints 'done that number 1', then 5 times 'done
that number 2 done that number 3', and then another 'done that number
2' before it hangs. By my count that is when it gets to the first
'yenta-socket' in $module. What is 'yenta-socket' and what does it do?
Thanks for your help.
Gerhard
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fstab-sync
by Peter Hutnick
I'd like to make some changes to my mountpoints, but this new
hal/fstab-sync system is completely opaque to me. The man page (which
I can't get to just now) suggests reading some XML files and a web
page. I think the web page was on freedesktop.org, which is down
right now. The XML files were . . . not helpful.
I've been googling, but I can't find any sort of "getting started"
type guide to this new system.
I'd also like to weigh-in as thinking that XML files and kookie little
daemons are a step in the wrong direction from a "UNIX philosophy"
point of view. Having changes to a (flat-text-thank-you-very-much)
file in /etc silently disappear on reboot is precisely the sort of
"advance" that I switched away from Windows to escape.
Anyway, any links would be helpful.
Thanks,
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by Brian Wright
I just installed the latest nVidia driver, but it seems that "glgears"
is not included with FC3 and I'm unable to find a site that carries
"glgears".
Which RPM package has "glgears?"
--
______________________________________________________________________
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Defaul session?
by Ovidijus Gabrenas
hi,
help me to make default session from GNOME to KDE
thanks
ovis
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Subject: Newbie question...
Hi all,
I've just two questions:
1. Is it possible to update Fedora Core1 to Fedora Core2 just via yum?
2. What's the best way to update RedHat 9 to Fedora Core2?
Should running anaconda be enough?
Thanks,
j3d.
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usb compact flash - udev
by Joshua Andrews
I am a little confused about the recognition of usb storage devices. I
have a Sandisk sm/cf card reader which is only added to fstab after
unplugging then plugging it in and running kudzu. This is kind of a
hassle compared to FC2 and even RH9 where is was configured automatically.
Do I have to cofigure these manually somewhere to have them recognised
from boot? I read the udev man and poked around in /etc/udev but
everything was pretty Greek to me.
Thanks,
Joshua
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