no finger touch on dell xt2

[niko]

Hi ,

I have a dell latitude xt2 notebook with multi touch screen functionality and ubuntu 9.04.

I try some configuration with xorg conf to have my touch screen up and running

Actually I'm able only to use the pen and it works very well.

My problem is that when I try to touch the scree with the finger , the mouse cursor jump on the top of the screen and I 'm unable to select, drag , double click anything.

I attach:
 the output of lspci -vvnn
the /var/log/Xorg.0.log
and /etc/X11/xorg.conf file

thanks

[Carlos Aguilar (carlos-aguilar)]

Same for me.
Patches seem to exist (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1406436), it would be nice if it was integrated in Lucid ...

Carlos

[Mario Verbelen (mario-verbelen)]

I have a xt2 with the multitouch N-trig device running maverick 2.6.35-9-generic

Just after boot the touchscreen fails to work, after a while the touchscreen starts to work (few minutes)

Still this N-Trig device should be multitouch, it looks like just identified as a single touchscreen

# grep N-trig /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 25.624] (II) config/udev: Adding input device N-Trig Pen (/dev/input/event7)
[ 25.624] (**) N-Trig Pen: Applying InputClass "evdev tablet catchall"
[ 25.624] (**) N-Trig Pen: always reports core events
[ 25.624] (**) N-Trig Pen: Device: "/dev/input/event7"
[ 25.632] (II) N-Trig Pen: Found 1 mouse buttons
[ 25.632] (II) N-Trig Pen: Found absolute axes
[ 25.632] (II) N-Trig Pen: Found x and y absolute axes
[ 25.632] (II) N-Trig Pen: Found absolute tablet.
[ 25.632] (II) N-Trig Pen: Configuring as tablet
[ 25.632] (**) N-Trig Pen: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
[ 25.632] (**) N-Trig Pen: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
[ 25.632] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "N-Trig Pen" (type: TABLET)
[ 25.632] (II) N-Trig Pen: initialized for absolute axes.
[ 25.632] (II) config/udev: Adding input device N-Trig Pen (/dev/input/mouse1)
[ 25.633] (II) config/udev: Adding input device N-Trig Touchscreen (/dev/input/event8)
[ 25.633] (**) N-Trig Touchscreen: Applying InputClass "evdev touchscreen catchall"
[ 25.633] (**) N-Trig Touchscreen: always reports core events
[ 25.633] (**) N-Trig Touchscreen: Device: "/dev/input/event8"
[ 25.644] (II) N-Trig Touchscreen: Found absolute axes
[ 25.644] (II) N-Trig Touchscreen: Found x and y absolute axes
[ 25.644] (II) N-Trig Touchscreen: Found absolute touchscreen
[ 25.644] (II) N-Trig Touchscreen: Configuring as touchscreen
[ 25.644] (**) N-Trig Touchscreen: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
[ 25.644] (**) N-Trig Touchscreen: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
[ 25.644] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "N-Trig Touchscreen" (type: TOUCHSCREEN)
[ 25.644] (II) N-Trig Touchscreen: initialized for absolute axes.
[ 25.644] (II) config/udev: Adding input device N-Trig Touchscreen (/dev/input/mouse2)
[ 25.645] (II) config/udev: Adding input device N-Trig Touchscreen (/dev/input/event10)
[ 25.645] (**) N-Trig Touchscreen: Applying InputClass "evdev touchscreen catchall"
[ 25.645] (**) N-Trig Touchscreen: always reports core events
[ 25.645] (**) N-Trig Touchscreen: Device: "/dev/input/event10"
[ 25.656] (II) N-Trig Touchscreen: Found absolute axes
[ 25.656] (II) N-Trig Touchscreen: Found x and y absolute axes
[ 25.656] (II) N-Trig Touchscreen: Found absolute touchscreen
[ 25.656] (II) N-Trig Touchscreen: Configuring as touchscreen
[ 25.656] (**) N-Trig Touchscreen: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
[ 25.656] (**) N-Trig Touchscreen: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
[ 25.656] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "N-Trig Touchscreen" (type: TOUCHSCREEN)
[ 25.656] (II) N-Trig Touchscreen: initialized for absolute axes.
[ 25.656] (II) config/udev: Adding input...

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
Is this bug reproducible with the latest Lucid or Maverick packages ?
Tanks in advance.

[Mario Verbelen (mario-verbelen)]

This bug stay's the same,

currently I have kernel 2.6.35-14-generic with updates of 1,2 day's ago

It still is the same issue

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello.
Can you please attach here these files:

/var/log/syslog
/var/log/dmesg
/var/log/kern.log
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

Thanks

:)Fabio

[Mario Verbelen (mario-verbelen)]

I have tarred them into a tgz,

if you want more info ...

[Mario Verbelen (mario-verbelen)]

I think this attachment can be usefull aswel

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[Chase Douglas (chasedouglas)]

This looks like a firmware issue. A multitouch N-Trig device should register a "MultiTouch" device with X. The X log posted in comment #3 does not mention any "MultiTouch" device. I have seen this once before on a similar N-Trig device. The solution was to fully update to the latest firmware available from the laptop vendor. I would look for a firmware update from Dell in this instance.

Unfortunately, the firmware updates are Windows executable files. There is no way to update the firmware in Linux yet.

I am moving the bug report to Invalid as it's not really an issue with the Ubuntu kernel.

[Mario Verbelen (mario-verbelen)]

I have send a mail to N-Trig and they are working on it

maybe it can be done before release of maverick :)

-> We are currently working on a Linux bundle for Ubuntu.
We should post it on our website within a month.

Regards
N-trig Customer Support