CF-28 Touch Screen Drivers/Installation

Hi,

I recently got a CF-28 Touch Screen and I am having problems getting it to work. I have found some posts by Toughbook and got some drivers he has posted but can’t get them to install. I unzip the files into a folder and right click the .inf file and selecting install, nothing happens. I have tried updating the unknown device in device manager selecting the unzip folder of the drivers, with no luck.

The touch screen is enabled in BIOS.

Using Windows XP Pro
Model: CF-28PBJG2QM

 

Update your mouse driver. That is also the touchscreen. The unknown device in device manager may be your hot keys. Toughbook knows more than I do about this though.

 

Yea, I figured it out. I needed to update the mouse driver and not that unkown device. (DUH)

Thanks!!

 

YEP thats it,
update mouse drive with ur touchscreen driver,
the unknown device is ur hotkey driver so update with that....

 

can anyone link me that driver. im having diffuclty understanding what needs to be updated

 

Look at the link in Modly's signature. Read through the documents there and determine what file you need. Although the driver is for the touchscreen, you need to use the touchscreen driver that you download to update the 'Mouse" driver in the control panel. You can find a decent walkthrough if you do a search for touchscreen driver.

 

What you do is right click on the My Computer icon and choose properties... then Hardware... then Device Manager.... Double click on the mouse and then Update Driver. Tell it you know where to find the driver and then point it to the driver you got from Modly... Then it will install. It will ask to reboot... Let it. Then you will need to double click on the little icon in the system tray (Lower right corner of the desktop) You can then choose Touchscreen and then Calibrate Touchscreen. You will then need to use a stylus or fingernail to push in on the center of the red X's that appear on the screen. When the red X goes back to the first position it started at... Click on Enter and you are finished and your touchscreen is calibrated!

 

hi guys can you please direct me to or give me the link where i can get the driver for the video card,

thank you,

 

Spend some time and read the FAQ for the cf-28 ( it's a sticky on the forum front page)
If after you need assistance , post your full model # and o/s and I will post a direct link for the video card driver



Alex

 

try browsing this site for drivers:

http://www.panasonic.ca/english/customercare/downloads.asp

 

Ok so which mouse device is the one to do this with?

With my CF28 the Sun USB mouse I use shows up as 'HID-compliant mouse' so that's not it. There is the 'Microsoft serial ballpoint mouse' which I have manually disabled back from when I was trying to get the factory GPS engine to work (which I've sort of given up on), and the other mouse device is a 'PS/2 compatible mouse' so I presume that's the one even though there's no PS/2 mouse plugged in at the back. The inbuilt touchpad must be a PS/2 compatible rodent device.

I noticed too that the mouse driver on my CF-28 has a date of 2001 showing up with version number 5.1.2600.0 - no idea if that is the latest one or if it's actually the touchscreen-enabled version of the driver but the driver zip files on Panasonic's FTP site all have 2008 dates.

I'm going to try installing the touchscreen and hotkey drivers and wait to find a suitable touchscreen unit to upgrade this system. How does the hotkey driver interact with the mouse/touchscreen driver btw?

Craig.

 

I am also having a touchscreen issue with my CF-28PRJP9DM.
It worked till I installed XP. I downloaded the driver from panansonic, but am having issues with it installing or my system saying the installed driver is the best suited.
you thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

 

By the way- the bios is enabled

 

Don't let the xp tell you that it knows whats best
Take charge and change it


You have to go into device manager under mouse and force the update to the touchscreen driver

Alex

 

Alright- I put my size 12 to XP and specified the driver to install and my troubles are gone!
Anyone else have low volume issues?

 

Ok, for someone that knows how to do this...reading this will be painful, but for someone that has no idea what they need to do, this a a step by step set of instructions. It should be near impossible to screw this up.
1. Click on "Control Panel"
2. Click on "System"
3. Click on "Hardware"
4. Click on "Device Manager"
5. Click on "Mice and Other Pointing Devices"
6. Click on "generic mouse"
7. Click on "Driver"
8. Click on "Update Driver"
9. When it asks if you want to automatically check for updated drivers, select "no not at this time"
10. Click on "install from a list or a specific location"
11. Click "don't search I will chose the driver to install"
12. Click "have disk"
13. Click "browse"
14. Click "Local Disk C Drive"
15. Click "util"
16. Click "drivers"
17. Click "mouse"
18. Click "Fidmous"
19. Click "open"
20. Comes up with "C:\util\drivers\mouse"
21. Click on ok and select "touch pad"
22. Click "next" and you're good to go
All of this would mean you actually downloaded the proper drivers from Panasonic...if you haven't, this will not work.

 

Thanks alot- you have been very helpful! The touchscreen is alive and kicking again!

 

Joe...what a bed time story. I am pretty sure yatch... will gonna fall sleep this time.

Thats what I am talking about, complete and detailed.

Good work.



ohlip

 

Wasn't too hard...it's the same way to load the touch drivers on the CF28 and CF29. Got to love the CF30...driver CD loads the touch drivers without having to mess with things.

 

joecox2,
I have copied your mini tutorial to the Drivers and manuals sticky. I was sure you wouldn't mind. Thanks for taking the time.
CAP

 

Just glad to help.