Re: TC1000 & Gentoo: xf86-input-tc1kpen X11 driver calibration

Vencik,
I've loaded the Nvidia driver from Nvidia (not portage). 1st I tried
to install it on to an updated kernel (2.6.23-r3) wouldn't install...
i found a patch for 7185 to load on to a 2.6.23 series kernel... still
wouldn't go! So now I'm back to my previous kernel image...
2.6.21-r4... and yea!!! the Nvidia driver installed, and using the
Nvidia settings app I am able to rotate screen, however the pen is not
working w/ your driver in X for me...
    As far as your pen script and driver... I've loaded the script and
conf and X driver... BUT no go! I've used your xorg.conf settings for
the Nvidia card (however I think your screen settings are wrong they
should be...

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier "TC1000 LCD"
        HorizSync 29.000-49.000
        VertRefresh 43.000-60.000
        Option "DPMS"
Endsection

The perl script (in a root console, X not running, or loaded) only
seems to read the stylus at the center of the screen, anywhere outside
of about a 3" area in the center of the screen gives no readout from
the pen. The digitizer is ok because the bios calibration tool
performs normally. Any ideas?

On Dec 20, 2007 6:19 AM, Václav Krpec <vaclav.krpec_at_acision.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> aka.bugle wrote:
> > this is really great... I can't wait ti try out the new script...
> > (I'm in the middle of a emerge -uDav world, so My machine still needs
> > to stabilize before loading your new work.
>
> I'd be glad if you mail me you experiences with the driver; it's really
> new, so I expect bugs (though it's working just fine for me).
>
>
> > a couple questions thou... (forgive me as I'm not real smart to linux)
> > 1.) Does the serial port still need to be turned on 1st?
> > ( I am currently turning it on with the line...
> > setserial /dev/ttyS0 autoconfig
> > in the /etc/init.d/bootmisc file)
>
> I don't do any such thing; the fpi2002 script should set the serial
> device fine. Of course, you need to have 8250 module loaded.
> I've made the fpi2002 dependent on modules, so adding 8250 to
> your /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 should be enough (or you
> may compile it directly into kernel, as I did).
>
>
> > 2.) could you tell me how to format the script ( your web version is
> > very hard to read, there's no line feeds????) or could you zip up a
> > plain text version of the script and config file for downloading?
>
> Is you've written, you have to save the target link as a file...
>
>
> > 3.) the X11 driver read me says to use /usr for a prefix inn the
> > configure command...
> > I'm new to compiling (outside of emerge!) could you elaborate on this?
>
> You need to run the configure script like this:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
>
> (as stated in the README). As you are new to the "saint triple" of
> ./configure, make and make install, I should say that the leading '$'
> means that you should run the command as an ordinary user while the
> starting '#' means that you must run it as root (to be able to write
> to the installation directories). Of course, you don't prefix the
> commands with '$' and '#'...
>
> Note that starting tommorow, I'm on holiday (till 7th of January)
> and as I still don't have internet connection at home, I won't be able
> to respond to any questions till the next year... Sorry for that.
>
> Regards,
>
> vencik
>
>
>
>
> > On Dec 17, 2007 2:16 PM, Václav Krpec <vaclav.krpec_at_acision.com> wrote:
> >> Hello again everyone,
> >>
> >> I've written a very simple tool to help calibrating
> >> the driver. It can be found in the updated driver
> >> package:
> >>
> >> http://www.razdva.cz/vencik/TC1000_And_Linux/src/drivers/xf86-input-tc1kpen-0.0.1.tar.bz2
> >>
> >> It's really very simple, but it should help a bit to
> >> find the min/max on-screen coordinates and side-buttons
> >> coordinates and Y-threshold.
> >>
> >> Note that you must NOT run it while in X with the driver
> >> loaded (it reads the serial device => conflict would happen).
> >> Run it from terminal.
> >>
> >> Also a note for Gentoo users: with David Kuehling's kind permission,
> >> I've put my adaptation of his fpi2002-new.sh script for Gentoo
> >> runscript init system on my WEB. GNU GPL v2 applies.
> >>
> >>
> >> Have fun,
> >>
> >> vencik
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Ned Konz wrote:
> >>> On Dec 12, 2007, at 8:42 AM, Václav Krpec wrote:
> >>>> Sorry that I still didn't write a calibration application;
> >>>> I can imagine that it would be really tricky to set side-buttons
> >>>> coordinates right without debug messages; I'll probably write
> >>>> something to simplify that. I guess that a cmd-line tool
> >>>> could be enough to get the raw calibration coords; then
> >>>> finetuning it in X should be quite fast.
> >>> Why not just wait for as many mouse clicks as there are side-buttons,
> >>> sort by location, and use them?
> >>>
> >> --
> >> Václav Krpec
> >> SW Engineer
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                          ~david