{"id":175,"date":"2010-10-14T20:33:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T18:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2011-02-22T23:11:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T21:11:41","slug":"enabling-acer-1825-touchscreen-on-ubuntu-10-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Enabling Acer 1825 Touchscreen on Ubuntu 10.10"},"content":{"rendered":"

[UPDATE \u00a0meanwhile you could get multitouch support, check http:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/?p=320<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n

So after some days of struggling with the touchscreen configuration I works very good (only singletouch).<\/p>\n

The problem was out of the box the touchscreen is detected as a touchpad in ubuntu 10.10. \u00a0It is a problem in the xorg-evdev driver (Version) 2.32. To fix this problem you need to patch the 2.32 or build and install a newer one.<\/p>\n

I tested both posebilities and decided, that using a newer evdev driver is the easier and better way.<\/p>\n

If you know what you need to do it is very easy operation.<\/p>\n

Tutorial for Ubuntu 10.10:<\/p>\n

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sudo<\/span> apt-get install<\/span> build-essential xutils-dev xserver-xorg-dev \u00a0autoconf<\/span> autotools-dev libtool
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\n# I don't know why it is not working with this modules installed --&gt;bug?<\/span>
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\nsudo<\/span> apt-get remove<\/span>\u00a0xserver-xorg-input-evtouch\u00a0xserver-xorg-input-tslib
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\nwget<\/span> http:\/\/<\/span>cgit.freedesktop.org\/<\/span>xorg\/<\/span>driver\/<\/span>xf86-input-evdev\/<\/span>snapshot\/<\/span>xf86-input-evdev-2.5.0.tar.gz
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\ntar<\/span> xvfz xf86-input-evdev-2.5.0.tar.gz
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\ncd<\/span> xf86-input-evdev-2.5.0\/<\/span>
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\n.\/<\/span>autogen.sh -prefix<\/span>=\/<\/span>usr
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\nmake<\/span>
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\nsudo<\/span> make<\/span> install<\/span><\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n

After a reboot the touchscreen should work fine in single touch mode.<\/p>\n

For getting a right-click use\u00a0System->Preferences->Mouse->Accessibility<\/p>\n

I tested this solution on Ubuntu Desktop and Netbook Edition. On netbook edition(unity) I have some problems of clicking the application icons on the left bar. On Ubuntu desktops everything works fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[UPDATE \u00a0meanwhile you could get multitouch support, check http:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/?p=320] So after some days of struggling with the touchscreen configuration I works very good (only singletouch). The problem was out of the box the touchscreen is detected as a touchpad in ubuntu 10.10. \u00a0It is a problem in the xorg-evdev driver (Version) 2.32. To fix this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","tag-acer-1825","tag-touchscreen","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceh-photo.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}