Multitouch Touchscreen Support

[ajoburg]

CurlyMo, Thanks for your comment but I'm not actually sure yet if this is the only module required. Let me try to figure out what exactly needs to be done to get this to work and then I'll open the issue on github.

Thanks namtih. Yes, I had seen that post and quite a few others similar. It seems like people are having a difficult time getting touchscreens to work whether under Xbian, openelec, or Raspbmc. Here is a long thread on the Raspbmc board (generic enough to Xbian) about the challenges and what has been tried: http://forum.stmlabs.com/showthread.php?tid=564.

Interestingly, the touchscreen works fine with the latest Raspbian 3.6.y but does not work under Raspbian 3.2.27. For performance reasons, my preference is to not have to run Raspbian. Maybe the challenge is because XBMC runs in the framebuffer of the Pi?

Here is the dmesg output from Xbian 1.0 Alpha 4 which shows the device as recognized (below). I rebuilt the kernel under OpenELEC with these modules added and it had no impact. Do you think it is worth doing the same with Xbian? Or is there something else going on that I'm missing?

Quote:[ 3.107472] usb 1-1.3.1: New USB device found, idVendor=2149, idProduct=2306
[ 3.114398] usb 1-1.3.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 3.121990] usb 1-1.3.1: Product: CoolTouch™ System
[ 3.128889] usb 1-1.3.1: Manufacturer: Advanced Silicon S.A
[ 3.147134] hid-generic 0003:2149:2306.0002: hiddev0,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Device [Advanced Silicon S.A CoolTouch™ System] on usb-bcm2708_usb-1.3.1/input1
[ 16.921443] input: Advanced Silicon S.A CoolTouch™ System as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3.1/1-1.3.1:1.0/input/input3
[ 17.029094] hid-multitouch 0003:2149:2306.0001: input,hidraw4: USB HID v1.10 Device [Advanced Silicon S.A CoolTouch™ System] on usb-bcm2708_usb-1.3.1/input0