> Michael,
>
> >i do have the elo driver installed.
>
> You mean, xf86Elo.so? It's not exactly the driver, it's
> XInput extension which reads data from the real driver
> than converts it into "mouse" events and sends to X.
>
> If controller attached to the serial port xf86Elo will use
> serial port driver as input and so doesn't need special
> touch driver.
>
> >here is the relevent section from my XF86config file:
> <snip>
> >Section "Pointer"
> > Protocol "Microsoft"
> > Device "/dev/ttyS1"
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> In my XF86Config above points to /dev/null, since I don't have serial
> mouse,
> but use touch as a pointer instead.
>
> >EndSection
>
> >Section "XInput"
> > SubSection "Elographics"
> > Port "/dev/ttyS1"
>
> That means xf86Elo.so expects input from serial port driver,
> from device attached to second serial port.
>
> >that the "Pointer" section says to use /dev/ttyS1 seems very
> >wrong to me.
>
> No, If your touch controller wired to 2nd serial port the above is right.
>
> >shouldn't the pointer be using the output of the Elo
> >driver? where does that come from, and how do i specify that?
>
> No, unless your controller wired to some exotic port. If yours uses
> serial all you have to do is to adjust XF86Config to point to the right
> port. Another story if xf86Elo you have doesn't suppport your particular
> controller model. In that case you'll have to adjust xf86Elo.c to your
> controller's protocol which isn't hard. But check with manufacturer first
> (Elo System or Elotouch?), likely they already have new xf86Elo.so.
>
> In my case proprietary controller wired to parallel port so I had to
> modify
> xf86Elo and write touch driver, my XF86Config looks like:
>
> Section "Module"
>
> # This loads the module for Elographics touch-screen
>
> Load "xf86Touch.so"
>
> EndSection
>
> Section "Pointer"
>
> Protocol "ps/2"
> Device "/dev/null"
>
> EndSection
>
> Section "Xinput"
> SubSection "Elographics"
> Port "/dev/touch"
> DeviceName "Elo"
> MinimumXPosition 1
> MaximumXPosition 255
> MinimumYPosition 1
> MaximumYPosition 255
> DebugLevel 2 #9
> ScreenNo 0
> UntouchDelay 10
> ReportDelay 10
> AlwaysCore
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Pavel Tkatchouk
> Squirrel Systems of Canada
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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