Re: Touchpad and calibration issues. ipaq H5450

Juan,

Thanks for the hint!
The content of my /etc/pointercal is:

73297 -128645 7864316 105874 -185820 10485754 65536

Danil

Juan Luis wrote:

>At the bootldr:
>
> boot> boot jffs2 boot/zImage console=ttyS0 init=/bin/sh sh
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>El Martes 10 Enero 2006 18:37, Danil Sokolov escribió:
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>
>>Juan,
>>
>>Sorry I cannot do it at the moment as my touch screen is completely
>>useless and the only connection I have - RS232 does not allow me in.
>>When I enter "root" as a login name it says:
>>h3900 login: root
>>login: no valid shadow password
>>So it does not even ask for a password. Trying to solve this on IRC now.
>>Otherwise I will need to reflash iPAQ.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Danil
>>
>>Juan Luis wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hello Danil,
>>>
>>>Please, Can you paste the contents of you /etc/pointercal ?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>Juan Luis
>>>
>>>El Martes 10 Enero 2006 15:47, Danil Sokolov escribió:
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>>>
>>>>Hi!
>>>>
>>>>I am experiencing nearly the same problem on iPAQ h5550.
>>>>
>>>>If I install Familiar 0.8.3 RC1 with Opie, then the calibration process
>>>>after the first boot never ends. Well, I manged to go through it a few
>>>>times. However it took me > 15 minutes of tapping the screen.
>>>>Unfortunately I was not patient enough to tap the cross correctly after
>>>>40-50 cycles of calibration and started tapping everywhere, so the
>>>>calibration is wrong in the end.
>>>>
>>>>Familiar 0.8.3 RC with GPE does better job on calibration - only one
>>>>cycle is forced. However the calibration is correct only until I rotate
>>>>the screen to landscape mode - it is screwed after that.
>>>>
>>>>Initially I thought that something is wrong with my device, but Julian's
>>>>message shows the problem is quite common.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>Danil
>>>>
>>>>Juan Luis wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Hello list,
>>>>>
>>>>>I have a H5450 and I recently installed 0.8.3 RC1 but the calibration
>>>>>app never writes the /etc/pointercal. It runs, I can touch crosshairs
>>>>>forever however the program never ends. Because this I have never a
>>>>>screen calibrated and familiar is unusable :-(
>>>>>
>>>>>I have searched Google and I have found people with the same problem
>>>>>that me, but I can't find solutions.
>>>>>
>>>>>In my effort to find a solution I have copied the /etc/pointercal from
>>>>>http://www.acfr.usyd.edu.au/projects/research/indoor-robots/human-robot/
>>>>>ip aq/index-3.html and I have played with the numbers and ts_test but
>>>>>yet I have a screen unusable :-(
>>>>>
>>>>>I have check that the visual apps not are working fine. Because of this
>>>>>I have to do the calibration manually. I have found a description of
>>>>>the format of /etc/pointercal at:
>>>>>http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-embedded-interest/2002-03/thread00058-0.ht
>>>>>ml . I can get screen_ variables with ts_print but this is my question:
>>>>>Where I get the device_ variables?
>>>>>
>>>>>Please, correct me If I am following a wrong way.
>>>>>
>>>>>Best regards,
>>>>>Juan Luis
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>https://handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/familiar
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