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    Looking for linux touchscreen information

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by PaulDWog, Sep 28, 2011.

  1. PaulDWog

    PaulDWog Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am looking to install Linux on my CF-M34 mk7.
    Any newbie info / advice on getting the touch screen working. :eek:
    Thanks in advance,
    Paul
     
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    I believe the touchscreen type is different on the CF-M34. The M34 uses a serial interface from what I have read. The only information I have been able to find for the M-34 is several years old.
     
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    The cf 29 is serial touchscreen
     
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    My recco is 10.04LTS. You don't want 11.04 (too fancy graphics wise) and 10.10 will offer to upgrade to 11.04.
    I haven't set up a CF-34 b4 but it should be similar I would think to a CF-28 and I have done those.
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/496467-cf-29-ubuntu-10-4-success.html#post6422641
    Ask here or do everyone a favor and ask in the 10.04 thread so as to bump it to the top here.
    You're going to need to use a modeset command on the first boot maybe.

    I'll be checking in.

    Jeff LTS=Long Term Support
     
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    Thanks for the info Sadlmkr.
    I'm going to try to document the process so there will be a more up to date setup for the M34. Wish me luck.
     
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    I would start with 10.04 being careful to not mix and match w/10.10 at this point. If you run into real trouble falling back to an earlier version may work, but I think we can get you going.
    The thing you may see is a black screen on boot. Not to worry. I'll clarify the modeset business if you don't get it.
    And as you say the information is dated (less than two years). You may want to read from back to front.
    Is touchscreen your only issue?...IOW are you running your Linux program already?

    Jeff
     
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    In my cf-28 the touchscreen works out of the box (archlinux and latest xorg).Then you'll need freedesktop.org - Software/xinput_calibrator to calibrate it.

    Be careful,the latest dri2-enabled xf86 intel driver and KMS don't work very well with old intel graphic chipset (i8xx series):no compositor effects or video playback with xv output (only the slow X11 output will work).You can enable sna or xvmc at compilation time to have better performance.
    Pre-dri2 drivers like 2.9.0 should work better.
     
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    I'd be interested in getting this to work on my CF-M34 MkIII
    Did try Sadlmkr's instructions however they required HAL which I can't install on my linux for practical purposes. (Not to mention I disagree with having to probe the hardware when you can just have it laid out in a config file!)
    If anybody has had success getting these serial gunze working with just xorg.conf I'd love to know.
     
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    Had to put this project on hold as my son broke his hand playing football last week. Now he has the M34 for taking notes and such at school. When I get him out of a cast I will restart this project.
    Thanks for the help and I will update ASAP.
     
    PaulDWog, Oct 4, 2011
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    Hmm, i'm toying with the idea of linux also. I use a cf-28 though. Thing is that usb boot is dodgy as it is, and it gives me a black screen every time i try to install. Then again, xp does the same thing, so i doubt its linux's fault...

    Why must everything be so complicated? *sigh*
     
    ares93, Oct 4, 2011
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