Lilliput 7" touchscreen LCD

[Nick Rogness]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, John Hay wrote:

>>> Ok, I have it mostly working. Not the the right click button thingy yet,
>>> but the rest seems to be working on FreeBSD-current. You can get it from:
>>
>> 	Yes! I've tested it with -CURRENT and it seems to be working
>> 	correctly in XWin 4.3.0.  The 25pcal doesn't work though.  It
>> 	loads but it doesn't respond to the screen touch.
>
> Have you tried it more than once? Maybe there is just a startup problem. 
> I have used both 4pcal and 25pcal and it does make a difference to the 
> accuracy of the "mouse" pointer placement on the screen when you touch 
> the screen. The only important thing is that you have to run 4pcal 
> and/or 25pcal before you load tpaneld because both try to use the uep 
> device.

 	Yes, I noticed that :-)  Both application run OK, but when I go to
 	try and click on the dot (or any part of the screen), nothing
 	happens.  I will try it again tonight.


[SNIP]
>
> I think the usb driver, uep, should go into the main source and the rest
> should be a port. At the moment I'm preparing for a 10 day trip in Aug
> to Botswana and the Caprivi part of Namibia, so I have some other things
> with higher priority. I needed the touchscreen for the car computer
> tgough. :-) I'll look at getting the uep driver into FreeBSD. If you
> want to look at making a port out of the rest, that will be great.
>

 	I will build the port this weekend.  Not sure what port category
 	to stick it under, maybe comm?  Anyhow, have a good trip.


Nick Rogness <nick at rogness.net>
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