[Gta04-owner] touchscreen with X with different kernels

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi Andreas,

Am 14.04.2012 um 12:35 schrieb Andreas Kemnade:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 10:58 +0000, Radek Polak wrote:
>> On Friday 13 April 2012 22:08:03 Andreas Kemnade wrote:
>> 
>>> When I use touchscreen with evdev x11 input driver and kernel 3.2, the
>>> pointer sometimes jumps away, when I'm using a virtual keyboard (short
>>> taps).
>> 
>> Have you tried using tslib instead of evdev? QtMoko is using tslib and the 
>> touchscreen works quite nice.
>> 
> Yes the Touchscreen in qtmoko works quite nice. 
> I have never got tslib working with kernel 3.2. 
> You seem to use the one from here:
> http://lindi.iki.fi/lindi/tslib/
> and not the one in standard debian.
> 
> That solves the problem and now if I'm using tslib from there, it works.
> Is it somewhere documented?

The Debian/LXDE in hw-validation also uses tslib and works fine.

It uses the one from the Debian Squeeze repository [1]
For Debian Lenny I had to heavily patch it [2] and compile my own variant.

tslib is unfortunately not very well documented. The best
documentation is the source code package from Debian...

BR,
Nikolaus

[1]: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libts-bin
[2]: http://download.goldelico.com/gta04/20110906-GTA04A3-ALSA-initializes/config.tgz includes a tslib.c and configuration