Puppy 5.2.8 Linux CF-29 touchscreen help

I have just downloaded and installed Puppy 5.2.8, and have to say it works rather well with my CF-29 out of the box. The touchscreen registers movement when touched, but needs calibration. Does anyone know the xorg.conf entries to calibrate the touchscreen?

 

According to this it is compatible with Ubuntu 10.04 so I would say check out the 10.10 thread.

Puppy Linux 5.2 Is Compatible With Ubuntu 10.04 - Softpedia

http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/524581-ubuntu-10-10-toughbook-version.html

I know it has info in there on the xorg.conf settings.

 

Try adding calibrate_touchscreen from Synaptics package manager. In the 10.10 thread there is a note to change "where" the information is saved. Here it is. http://forum.notebookreview.com/6803791-post23.html

Let us know.

Jeff

Edit: I'm on a CF-51 now or I would send a screenshot. I can do this later if necessary. J

 

I was hoping Puppy 5.2.8 (based on Ubuntu 10.04) would let me use calibrate_touchscreen or xinput-calibrate. It can't find calibrate_touchscreen (maybe only available in 10.10?). I can install xinput-calibrate, but when I try to use it, it says: "no calibratable devices found".

Hmmmmm...........

I didn't want to, but maybe I should just install Ubuntu 10.10 and be done with it.

It's a shame, because Puppy is so nice and compact and everything worked "out of the box" except touchscreen calibration.

Sadlmkr,

Can you do a lsmod and tell me which touchscreen module is supposed to be installed?

 

That's for the HT? Touchscreen on in bios???

I think this will be the 10.04 thread. http://forum.notebookreview.com/6422641-post1.html. ***

What does lshal say?

***Note: ignore the blackscreen portion as that has been fixed in most distros..... unless you get a black screen.

If you added calibrate touchscreen delete it first. If we have to many problems a clean install is in order.

Jeff

 

Thanks for info Sadlmkr,

I went ahead and installed Ubuntu 10.10, and still could not find calibrate_touchscreen, but xinput-calibrator worked great. This distro is heavier than Puppy, but still fits nicely on my antique 8 GB hard drive. Even on this mk2 CF-29 (1.3 Ghz) with this really old HDD (probably 4200 rpm), Ubuntu boots in 48 seconds.

xinput-calibrator here: http://github.com/downloads/tias/xinput_calibrator/xinput-calibrator_0.7.5-1_i386.deb

If some have really old HDDs (like 3 GB) Puppy is very light-weight (1.2 GB full install) and a little faster than Ubuntu (even though based on Ubuntu). One day, I may experiment more with your info on Ubuntu 10.04 to get Puppy touchscreen calibrated. Or I may just wait for next iteration of Puppy (hopefully based on 10.10). For now, I am happy to have Ubuntu working well.

 

I haven't personally tried it out yet but look at some of the lighter versions of ubuntu 10.10 offered in Xubuntu, Lubuntu and I know there is another version that is light weight.

 

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (and all flavours Xfce, LXDE, KDE) is available for a month now.

 

Yes, but I have tried 11.04/11.10. I HATE unity, the simple desktop of 10 seems to work better. I know I can upload other desktops enviroments but haven't played with that much.