Open a terminal window by pressing CTR+ALT+T on the keyboard or by using the search tool Now from that list, find your touchscreen device which will be listed in pointer category. Once you get the touchscreen working, note which properties you had to set and make sure the config file contains the exact section names, parameter names and values. I've got an old Asus VivoBook, and its touchscreen is now glitchy and almost unusable, so I wanted to disable it. With this setup the board's VC4 firmware takes care of communicating with the touch chip and provides data though a shared memory area provided. Out of the box on several distributions this touchscreen exhibits Y-axis inversion, where touching the top of the screen moves the cursor to the bottom and vice versa. The linux kernel automatically detects these devices and uses the hiddev module to export it as a generic input device.sudo apt-get install xinput Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done xinput is already the newest version. Do it automatically via a udev rule The first release(v0. I've tested the screen both on windows and ubuntu 12. For the touch screen functions to work, you need to install the driver. Apparently Atmel touchscreens aren't supported in kernels earlier than 3. find the ID of the touchscreen xinput -list 2. We successfully tested the USB driver version 4. This is a method for calibrating the touchscreen which will work just for Xserver and Xserver based applications.Linux xinput touchscreen Code: Input driver version is 1.

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