Debian on FreeRunner

[Gregoire Gentil]

Daniel,

Thanks for the answer. It's not working for me. I don't have any more
the delta but there is a scale problem (top left corner matches but
bottom right corner doesn't at all).

Can you please copy paste your /etc/ts.conf and /etc/pointercal here?

Thanks,

Grégoire


On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 13:01 -0400, Daniel Benoy wrote:
> I copied my /etc/pointercal from internal flash (Which can be mounted from within debian as /dev/mtdblock6, I believe)
> 
> That worked for me.  :)  Hope that helps.
> 
> I wished that the openmoko team used Debian instead of openembedded.. I wish I could just apt-get stuff instead of having to struggle with opkg .. and busybox annoys me sometimes.
> 
> On Thursday 07 August 2008 12:20:11 Gregoire Gentil wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > After much efforts (but thanks for the page ;-) ), I have managed to
> > install this on my microSD card:
> > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Debian
> > 
> > I can reach the gdm screen but the calibration of the touchscreen is
> > totally flaky.
> > 
> > After another set of painful efforts, I have managed to install
> > libts-bin and run ts_calibrate. If you want to know, you need to do this
> > from the terminal over the USB-connection:
> > 
> > export TSLIB_CALIBFILE="/etc/pointercal"
> > export TSLIB_CONFFILE="/etc/ts.conf"
> > export TSLIB_PLUGINDIR="/usr/lib/ts"
> > export TSLIB_FBDEVICE=/dev/fb0
> > export TSLIB_CONSOLEDEVICE=none
> > export TSLIB_TSDEVICE=/dev/input/event1
> > ts_calibrate 
> > 
> > I get some numbers on /etc/pointercal but there are quite different if I
> > run ts_calibrate a few times. In any case, the touchscreen is still
> > totally mad and I can't use xvkbd to input the login info. In the best
> > case scenario, the pointer is around 200x200 pixels NW from the touch.
> > 
> > Then, I have played with xorg.conf. I have tried the rotate option and
> > many other things, but unsuccessfully.
> > 
> > Any idea? Thanks in advance,
> > 
> > Gregoire
> > 
> > PS: In case, you ask:
> > 
> > more /etc/ts.conf 
> > # Uncomment if you wish to use the linux input layer event interface
> > module_raw input
> > 
> > # Uncomment if you're using a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500/SL-5000d
> > # module_raw collie
> > 
> > # Uncomment if you're using a Sharp Zaurus SL-C700/C750/C760/C860
> > # module_raw corgi
> > 
> > # Uncomment if you're using a device with a UCB1200/1300/1400 TS
> > interface
> > # module_raw ucb1x00
> > 
> > # Uncomment if you're using an HP iPaq h3600 or similar
> > # module_raw h3600
> > 
> > # Uncomment if you're using a Hitachi Webpad
> > # module_raw mk712
> > 
> > # Uncomment if you're using an IBM Arctic II
> > # module_raw arctic2
> > 
> > module pthres pmin=1
> > module variance delta=30
> > module dejitter delta=100
> > module linear
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> 
> p
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