The problem is not making it work with the X drivers on the system, it's making it into a product that you can deploy to an end user. This means a friendly calibration utility and configuration options tools. The free stuff from elotouch.com, the linux_public.zip file is woefully incomplete.
I see you don't like 3M. Make a request for their source code, you will have to sign an NDA but with source they work pretty well.
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From: kclug-bounces@kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf Of John Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 1:21 PM To: kclug@kclug.org Subject: Re: X with touchscreen monitors
I have worked with the Elo drivers before. These days (considering you have a newer Elo touch) you use the drivers in X. You can find how to setup the drivers at:
http://www.elotouch.com/support/linux.asp
The newer versions of X (4.x.x) include some Elo drivers that should work. That is what Elo suggests using. Just look for the input driver as instructed and see if it works. Otherwise, I would look up the particular model of Elo and try googling for it from there.
I'm glad you asked about Elo's instead of 3M touchscreens so I could keep my email message at a PG rating ;)
-John Frakes
unixengineer@earthlink.net
-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Siemens Sent: Mar 23, 2006 12:28 PM To: kclug@kclug.org Subject: X with touchscreen monitors
Does anyone have elo graphics touch screens drivers and touch screen calibration utility for 2.6 kernels. In particular CentOS 4.3, the comparable to RHEL 4, updates 3.
I can make the touch screen work with the elographics X drivers but the right way is to use the package from elo which I have been unable to get from them. It's a kernel level driver and calibration tool. The package would likely be called elotouch-1.1somthiing.rpm based on the little that I know.