Comment 2 for bug 379313

We can confirm this with HP TouchSmart dx9000 which has the unnamed touchscreen device on the USB bus as ID "1926:0003". This touchscreen does not work out of the box. I figure "1926:0003" is the touchscreen since it shows up in dmesg as NextWindow Touchscreen:

[ 7.762373] usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
[ 7.767059] input: NextWindow Touchscreen as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb6/6-1/6-1:1.0/input/input3
[ 7.769073] generic-usb 0003:1926:0003.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [NextWindow Touchscreen] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0
[ 7.771743] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/device:23/input/input4
[ 7.776112] generic-usb 0003:1926:0003.0002: hiddev96,hidraw1: USB HID v1.00 Device [NextWindow Touchscreen] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input1
[ 7.777120] ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
[ 7.780169] input: NextWindow Touchscreen as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb6/6-1/6-1:1.2/input/input5
[ 7.784108] generic-usb 0003:1926:0003.0003: input,hiddev97,hidraw2: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [NextWindow Touchscreen] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input2

Jamie can you please confirm that
1) You have "1926:0003" as a device in your lsusb output (just making sure we have the same touchscreen)
2) Having xserver-xorg-input-evdev and xserver-xorg-input-evtouch allows you to use the touchscreen (regardless of the orientation issue)

Also, besides confirming these can you attach you dmesg and lsusb output.

Once complete, I will confirm this. Thanks!

Side note: USB ID should be named properly as "NextWindow Touchscreen" in the Linux USB ID database.