calibration utility is missing for touchscreen

[Andrew Frank]

Binary package hint: xorg

the lucid (beta 1) does recognize my touchscreen, but not precisely. i need to calibrate, but cannot find the calibration utility.

recommendation: insert it automatically in preferences/administration/accessory menu.

without calibration the touchscreen recognition is not worth it...

thank you!

andrew

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+3ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 8 10:20:54 2010
DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
GdmLog2: X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious mode (not 1777) or is not a directory, aborting.
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
MachineType: FUJITSU LifeBook P1630
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-19-generic root=UUID=ed2639b4-f090-4f2a-a775-c821614f1b34 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
dmi.bios.date: 11/14/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: FUJITSU // Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
dmi.bios.version: Version 1.07
dmi.board.name: FJNB1F8
dmi.board.vendor: FUJITSU
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: A322H10305301010
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnFUJITSU//PhoenixTechnologiesLtd.:bvrVersion1.07:bd11/14/2008:svnFUJITSU:pnLifeBookP1630:pvr:rvnFUJITSU:rnFJNB1F8:rvr:cvnA322H10305301010:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: LifeBook P1630
dmi.sys.vendor: FUJITSU
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.32-19-generic

[Andrew Frank (frank-geoinfo)]

the stub for the desktop /usr/share/app-install/desktop is present but the script that actually should do the work /usr/bin/calibrate_touchscreen is missing. i will try the one from karmic...

[Andrew Frank (frank-geoinfo)]

in karmic: the calibrate_touchscreen.sh is a link to ../lib/xf86-input-evtouch/calibrate.sh
the code there cannot be executed, because
"Could not initialise connection to hald.
Normally this means the HAL daemon (hald) is not running or not ready."

and it produces a nice error message

No evtouch capable device found, if you are sure you have
an evtouch capable touchscreen, please mail the resulting file of the command "lshal > evtouch_hal.out" to the
bug url https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/317094, so support for your device can be added.

i hope this helps in tacking down the problem, which is crucial for lucid to support touchscreen devices!

thank you
andrew

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Moving to the appropriate package - evdev now handles the touchscreen. I'm not sure how calibration is expected to work at this point.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

I'll ask around in #ubuntu-x to work out touchscreens are expected to be handled now.

[Andrew Frank (frank-geoinfo)]

the touchscreen is handled correctly but the calibration package needs to be included and fixed to understand where to find the touchscreen - it uses HAL and must be changed (i am sure that other input devices needed to be changed from HAL to the new system). where is a descriptiv document on the replacement of HAL? i would then fix the touchscreen_calibration.sh - i have looked at the code before and improved/fixed it before. for this i need an understanding what replaces HAL.

andrew

[vince (lapcchan)]

i am testing lucid (beta 2) PC (Intel x86) netbook live with my samsung Q1. touchscreen kinda works but yes we need calibration though.

[Eric Drechsel (ericdrex)]

The correct calibration program I think is xinput_calibrator [1]

[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xinput_calibrator

It is simple and usable, actively maintained, works with a number of drivers, and has both an X11 and GTK version.

If you'd like to try it out, clone and compile the X11 version (the GTK version has lots of build deps). A good first step would be to make a PPA. I will try to get to this, unless somebody else wants to jump on it.

The deb package should probably contain a wrapper script which catches the output and places it in a script, something like

  /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90xinput_calibrator_${devicename}

(another option is udev but that seems wrong, unless ubuntu devs have a policy decision)

[Eric Drechsel (ericdrex)]

upstream bug: http://github.com/tias/xinput_calibrator/issues#issue/7

[Andrew Frank (frank-geoinfo)]

the calibration unit is still missing - could somebody produce a deb version? i am not experienced with x11 (and related) coding.

thank you! andrew

[gaussito (cnavr)]

I have the same problem on Asus R2H, the touchscreen does work but needs calibration.

[Tias Guns (tias)]

Hey,

I'm the lead developer of xinput_calibrator, the generic touchscreen calibrator for X.org.

You can find deb packages for lucid in my ppa (can upload it for other releases too...):
https://launchpad.net/~tias/+archive/xinput-calibrator-ppa

I've also submitted the package to debian-mentors as to get it in unstable. It would be even greater if ubuntu would accept it themselves before their freeze deadline !

Source of the packaging available on:
http://github.com/tias/xinput_calibrator/tree/debian

Kind regards,
Tias

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Andrew Frank, would xinput-calibrator work for you?

apt-cache policy xinput-calibrator
xinput-calibrator:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.7.5-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     0.7.5-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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