egalax touchscreen not working

[james85]

OK bit of an update. I worked on this a lot yesterday and learned a lot. There's quite a bit of info so I'll try and make it as concise as possible. First off to answer your last question, stopping xbmc and unimapper doesn't seem to work. (I did this via SSH which works great but I can't seem to copy w/o entering a command. Anyway,)

xbian@xbian ~ $ sudo stop xbmc
stop: Unknown instance:

xbian@xbian ~ $ sudo stop unimapper
stop: Unknown job: unimapper

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Evtest seems to be working to some extent for whatever reason? This boggles my mind why it seems to work now but didn't before. The only thing is it reaches the 'interrupt to exit' point but seemingly locks up. Here it is via the SSH:

xbian@xbian ~ $ evtest
No device specified, trying to scan all of /dev/input/event*
Not running as root, no devices may be available.
Available devices:
/dev/input/event0: DELL Dell USB Wired Multimedia Keyboard
/dev/input/event1: DELL Dell USB Wired Multimedia Keyboard
/dev/input/event2: eGalax Inc. USB TouchController
Select the device event number [0-2]: 2
Input driver version is 1.0.1
Input device ID: bus 0x3 vendor 0xeef product 0x1 version 0x100
Input device name: "eGalax Inc. USB TouchController"
Supported events:
Event type 0 (EV_SYN)
Event type 1 (EV_KEY)
Event code 330 (BTN_TOUCH)
Event type 3 (EV_ABS)
Event code 0 (ABS_X)
Value 324
Min 0
Max 2047
Event code 1 (ABS_Y)
Value 755
Min 0
Max 2047
Properties:
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
/boot/cmdline.txt/boot/cmdline.txtInput driver version is 1.0.1
Input device ID: bus 0x3 vendor 0xeef product 0x1 version 0x100
Input device name: "eGalax Inc. USB TouchController"
Supported events:
Event type 0 (EV_SYN)
Event type 1 (EV_KEY)
Event code 330 (BTN_TOUCH)
Event type 3 (EV_ABS)
Event code 0 (ABS_X)
Value 324
Min 0
Max 2047
Event code 1 (ABS_Y)
Value 755
Min 0
Max 2047
Properties:
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)

I let it sit like this for around 40min before I tried to copy this (ctrl c) and this interrupted the testing. Right clicking doesn't work either (it enters previous commands)

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The other thing to note is my original assessment as to the touchscreen failing to work all together was wrong. There is indeed a cursor but it typically starts somewhere (way) off screen. If you play with it a bit you can get it to show up, it's just that the calibration is way way off and the x/y axis' are inverted.

So that's where I'm at so far. I noticed in the evtest it says 'not running as root' so I figure I'll run the evtest as root and see what happens.