evtouch works incorrectly when the screen is left or right rotated
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xf86-input-evtouch (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Oliver Grawert | ||
Intrepid |
Won't Fix
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High
|
Oliver Grawert |
Bug Description
I installed Hardy Heron 8.04 on my HP tx1350el and got the touch screen to work using the xserver-
Related branches
Changed in xf86-input-evtouch: | |
assignee: | nobody → bryceharrington |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in xf86-input-evtouch: | |
assignee: | bryceharrington → nobody |
Changed in xf86-input-evtouch: | |
assignee: | nobody → ogra |
Changed in xf86-input-evtouch: | |
assignee: | nobody → ogra |
importance: | Undecided → High |
milestone: | none → intrepid-updates |
status: | New → In Progress |
I managed to fix this problem, which is confirmed by other users in some of the last posts of this thread ubuntuforums. org/showthread. php?t=442483
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Basically, I edited the evtouch.c source file in such a way that screen_width and screen_height are swapped if there is a left or right rotation. Unfortunately, this doesn't fix the problem for resolution changes.