USB Touch screen

[brantje]

Hello,
I got an 7" touch screen from my dad.
The output is usb, so i connected it to the pi.
Did an lsusb

Output:

Terminal

xbian@xbian:~# sudo lsusb
[sudo] password for xbian:
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0eef:0001 D-WAV Scientific Co., Ltd eGalax TouchScreen
xbian@xbian:~#

I searched a bit, seems the thing is well kown in the touch screen world.

http://forum.stmlabs.com/showthread.php?tid=564

The monitor is an 700YYV-P1 TFT LCD Monitor with VGA and AV inputs

At the moment i'm using RCA, need a converter from HDMI to vga.

Research shows that touchkitusb and evdev module's are needed in the kernel, which are currently missing.

Any tips / hints / patches how i can get this to work?

If we can add touchscreen support to xbian, then xbian would be the best choise to use it in a car

[namtih]

Here is a guide:
http://thomas.grziwa.net/?p=29

It's in German, but perhaps you can get the most important information out of it.
There seems to be 4 big steps:
- download and install driver
- recompile kernel
- do the calibration
- add the calibration data to X11

[CurlyMo]

Instead of step two (recompile kernel) let me know what modules you need to i can compile them for you, will be a lot faster.

[Allycat]

Ive been trying for over a week now to get xbian working with a desktop so I can install and calibrate my touch screen. I am completely new to linux and I am really frustrated now. If a working image could be made available I would be eternally grateful.

Thanks
Allycat

[CurlyMo]

Why not use raspbian for that? We don't support x-windows.

[Allycat]

Xbmc wont install with raspbian.

[CurlyMo]

X-windows and XBMC don't work well of the RPi, due to lack of performance, so why do you want both?

[Allycat]

I dont know how to calibrate the touchscreen from the command line the Touchscreen

[brantje]

Allycat do you have the touch part working on xbian?

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Linux driver here: http://210.64.17.162/web20/eGalaxTouchDriver/linuxDriver.htm
Kernel 2.6.23 Downward << This one we need, but then we need xwindow -_-

[brantje]

http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2013/01/17/how-to-get-evtouch-touch-screen-kit-working-in-linux/

We need to do this:
@CurlyMo can you do this to include the right module into the kernel:

Quote:before compiling, in menuconfig we include
usbtouchscreen module, which supports this touch screen film. Here is where do we need to find this module.

Device Drivers -> Input device support -> Generic input layer (needed for keyboard, mouse, …) -> Touchscreens (INPUT_TOUCHSCREEN [=y]) -> TOUCHSCREEN_USB_EGALAX [=y]

Then we can get the touchscreen to work with xbian

[brantje]

@CurlyMo, since i've installed the module, i've got reboots during HD playback.
Testing it now

edit: was not the kernel package, was a slightly corrupted sd