Re: Getting touchscreen to work on Fujitsu B6210

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 01:16:57 -0400
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> 
> On Thursday 22 February 2007 01:16, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > I did a little investigation and the touchscreen on B6210 is
> > attached via the 8250 serial port. I tried enabling it with
> > inputattach but seem to get garbage.
> > 
> > I can extract the initialization code from the evtouch driver
> > to a usermode program and read information from /dev/ttyS0.
> > 
> > The lifebook psmouse extension won't work because it tries
> > to grab the 8042 (touchpad) rather than the touch screen.
> > 
> > Ideas?
> > 
> 
> Please try the patch below. You will need to load 8250_pnp,
> serport and fujitsu_ts modules, then do
> 
>         inputattach -fjt /dev/ttyS0
>

inputattach runs (then waits). Data is arriving when I touch
the screen. Now what? Do I need an Xorg driver for it?