Re: grub2 and touch screen

[Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>]

В Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:06:42 +0200
Theodore Christophe <mission_theodore@hotmail.com> пишет:

> hello all,
> 
> First of all, thank-you for your works.
> 
> I have installed Fedora21 on my laptop (Medion all in one) with dual 
> boot, and every-thing is working fine.
> Grub2 give me the choice between win8.1 and FC21, and other rescue.
> 
> BUT when I use my laptop as touch pad (by removing the screen), with no 
> keyboard, I could not select the boot I want to use. Fedora is the 
> default and the touch screen is working fine after.
> 
> Do you think that grub can manage the touch screen (something like two 
> button win81 and FC21) ?
> 

Somebody would need to write driver for it (assuming it is technically
possible in firmware at all). I think I have seen reports that using
hardware buttons worked for selecting menu entries, but it may be
hardware dependent.

As Michael, I think adding support for hardware buttons looks more
promising.