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Posted: Oct. 11 2005,23:24 QUOTE

Hi,
I have a Geode system with a touchscreen (Penmount) that runs "successfully" on Fedora Core 3.

Having experimented with DSL on other computers I was wondering if it's possible to set up a touchscreen in the X server that DSL uses?

Thanks,
Peter
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Posted: Oct. 12 2005,22:05 QUOTE

If it works with Xfree86 on other distros, then it should work on XFree86 for DSL.

If it does not work with the builtin DSL TinyX Kdrive X servers, you will need to download and install the xfree86.dsl extension.
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Posted: Oct. 12 2005,23:10 QUOTE

Thanks,

From the info I found TinyX doesn't seem to have a config file like xorg.conf/XF86Config and since setting up the touchscreen requires som editing of that file, including loading a module, it can't be done with TinyX server.

I will try installing xfree86 dsl extention and see if I can get it to work that way.

Thanks again,
Peter
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Posted: Oct. 18 2005,16:24 QUOTE

Update:

I have installed XFree86.dsl on a frugal grub HDD install (using toram) and it works fine.

The XFree86 has drivers for a lot of input stuff including penmount. I haven't got the touchscreen working yet even though I did the same changes to XF86Config file as in the FC3 installation. The touchscreen is connected to ttyS0.

If anyone has any ideas don't hold back :-)

Best,
Peter
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Posted: Oct. 19 2005,09:48 QUOTE

FC3 uses xorg and not XFree - maybe that could be the explanation? A long shot in the dark: could you boot with Knoppix and if that works (I would guess it's not likely) then you could copy over that config file.
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