cf-18 tablet problem

I bought this cf-18 from a guy on craigslist, but he was a dumbass and put vista on it which made it slow as hell, so I reinstalled it with XP corporate edition. I managed to find the drivers online, but now the tablet wont work.

It says it's installed but the pen does nothing. It's listed as a Human Interface Device mouse. Also for some reason the tablet buttons don't work. Am I retarded? Do I need tablet edition or something?

 

You shouldn't need a tablet edition or anything.

http://panasonic.ca/english/customercare/sandd/softwarequery.asp#

Search for CF-18 in Model, and check the Windows XP box.

There are drivers in there.
If you have trouble installing them, refer to the CF-28 FAQ. It has the details for installing touchscreen drivers.

 

The fujitsu takamisawa folders in the "mouse" drivers dont do anything. Only the uninstall program will even open. THe other ones either do nothing or put some weird little "L" window in the middle of the screen.

The pen driver and the tablet buttons driver files just have a .reg file I don't know what to do with.

 

Did you do that?

If the 18's are anything like the 28's, it's a bit tricky to get working unless the directions are followed.

 

hey thanks for the continued support

I did what the FAQ said and it seemed to be working, but I tried right clicking on the "badly drawn mouse" and it didnt do anything. Left clicking just brought up the regular mouse calibration menu, which didn't have anything to do with touchscreen.

When I used the configuration software that came with the fujitsu mouse drivers (touch the red crosses, etc) it didn't accept any screen input. I don't know if there's yet another driver that pertains to the touchscreen only? Whatever the case, the screen doesn't seem to understand it's being prodded.

 

Are you sure you didn't do the drivers for the digitizer instead of the touchscreen or for the touchscreen instead of the digitizer? Also, if you have the digitizer one, do you have the digitizer stylus and not a regular one?

 

I don't know what a digitizer is, sorry. It has this pen thing connected to wire, but it should be able to accept input from my finger, from what I've read online.

THe only drivers for "mouse" are by fujitsu, the makers of the touch screen component. The driver I installed from the fujitsu folder (in mouse drivers) was the only driver in there. I don't think it would have worked if I didn't to the right one.

Also just as new info, when I click on the application mentioned before (badly drawn mouse in front of monitor) directly from the mouse driver folder, it says "Open Mutex error." I do not know what that means.

 

Ok wait I think it might be the drivers are for the wrong version of the cf-18.
Mine is a CF18NDHZXVM, all these drivers are for the CF18FK_____ versions, rrgh.

 

That could be a problem. On the 18's, there are two types of inputs on a screen. Yours is a touchscreen. They also make a digitizer which is a special sheet that goes behind the LCD. Instead of using touch to move the mouse like on a touchscreen, it senses a circuit embedded in a special stylus. You don't need to touch the screen to make it work and using anything but the special stylus won't work. But again, you have a regular touchscreen so all is good beyond your issue with drivers.

 

Mutexis a programming term for a Mutual Exclusion Object; it refers to some resource or subroutine which when used by a running process, must not be able to be accessed by any other process (sort of I can only do one of you at a time kinda thing). When a process initiates the mutex resource, that resource refuses access from any other process as it is open. When the current process is done with the mutex resource, it releases or closes that resource. My guess is that you have a mutex type driver or dll file that is being kept open by some process and your calibration utility can't use it when it wants; or that the file associated with that mutex resource is damaged and stuck permanently open.

This is as close to an answer as I can give for that one question; I remember this from my Programming Logic & Design class, but I'm not much of a programmer.

The short version (I think) is you have either a corrupted/incorrect driver or dll file, or a conflict between drivers or dll files.

mnem<~~~ *Head explodes, raining technicolor confetti all over the forum* I HATE WHEN IT DOES THAT...!

 

Zero- are you sure about that? the model he gives shows as a digitizer in the configurator. he would need to get the calcomp driver for the digitizer.

 

Wait my bad you were right it is a digitizer with a special stylus, not a touchscreen.

ALso the mouse driver made specifically for the CF18N still doesn't make the damn thing work.

There's a pen driver I found, but it's a .reg and i already tried it, it said it worked.

 

I had to go to the Calcomp site to get the correct driver for the digitizer on a customers cf-18 as it could not be found on any of the pana sites.

Another option is to buy the original recovery disks, they come up on Ebay from time to time.

 

is there a link you could give

 

tough-2-go: You're right, I didn't pay close enough attention.

omgomg: Once you have the right driver, the only thing that will work on your screen is the special stylus. A regular one or your finger or anything else for that matter won't work. As far as the computer is concerned, without that stylus, it's just a sheet of plain glass.

 

I still have the stylus and it worked with vista

 

I got the driver here: http://tinyurl.com/ypgglo use it as a last resort if you can't find the one from Panasonic, but I found that it actually works better than the original Panasonic and has more features. It is the second one down from the top.

 

I'm trying to install the drivers from the calcomp download...it only attempts it if i try to install it under "mouse or other pointing device" and not "Human INterface Device"...

Theres 2 .inf files, GtcoSER.inf and GTcouta.inf, both give me an error "a service installation section of this INF is invalid"...maybe because the digitizer isn't USB?

 

Oh Man I am sorry I just realized I gave you the link to the wrong driver, the CF-18 uses the Wacom tablet not the Calcomp that one was used for another tablet. Let me try and locate the Wacom one and I will post again. Again my apologies.

here is the correct link to the Wacom driver: http://tinyurl.com/ypgglo

 

Lol, we've managed to totally screw up what seemed like a simple problem to solve.

 

OMG WIN that worked, I owe you all beer.

THank you all for your continued support, I never would have figured it out and I probably would have thrown the thing out the window (although it probably wouldn't care, it is a toughbook after all)

Once again thanks! Hope someone else can use this someday.

 

Are all copies of XP Tablet edition the same? I heard you can't get a license for it, only available on OEM devices. How do you like the digitizer? Is it responsive?

 

I'm happy you guys got it solved though. I was busy fighting my insomnia in my bed the whole time!

Do you like the CF-18 so far?

 

For reference on the 18's and 19's if you want to know if the model is a touchscreen of digitizer model, look at the second letter after the model number.

CF18NDHZXVM

C and D are digitizer models.
H and J are touchscreen models.