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jlobue10 / SteamDeck_rEFInd

Simple rEFInd install script for the Steam Deck (with GUI customization)
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Touchscreen fix #31

Closed ryanrudolfoba closed 1 year ago

ryanrudolfoba commented 1 year ago

Hi there. I hope you dont mind as i saw some users are asking for touchscreen support.

Its an easy fix and documented on the rEFInd config - you cant use enable touch and enable mouse at the same time. You only have to choose 1. If you choose both, then the last entry takes precedence and the other gets disabled.

I saw in your config that you defined enable touch followed by enable mouse. So it process enable mouse instead and disables enable touch.

Here is sample of the config i use. I hope it helps.

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jlobue10 commented 1 year ago

Thank you! This is good feedback. Testing this now. Unfortunately the Steam Deck touch screen is not active yet that early in the boot to work (just tested it), but maybe in the future Valve will fix that. If people want to use touch instead, if and when it works, they can just uncheck enable mouse and recreate config (or manually edit the config file).

Also, feel free to use my code updates (GUI) and tailor for your Clover installation method, but please give credit where credit is due. :)

jlobue10 commented 1 year ago

Valve needs a firmware and/ or a driver fix to properly support rEFInd's touch screen option (assuming rEFInd's touch option is not the problem). I (along with some others) will see if we can get a rEFInd driver to work with it. Maybe it is actually solvable on our end.

jlobue10 commented 1 year ago

It's possible for us to get this working with drivers added for rEFInd. Needs more investigation. I will happily merge a fix if someone else figures it out (after testing it myself of course).

ryanrudolfoba commented 1 year ago

No worries. For now Im ok with just scripting everything no GUI.

jlobue10 commented 1 year ago

Yep, no worries. This was good feedback, as I was not aware that these two options would only load the last one enabled (and supersede the previous setting. Thank you for that information.

And yes, the config file for Clover seems a bit more daunting, but the framework is there in my code as a starting point for you to do something similar with Clover with a GUI. I did most of the development work through a VNC session on a Kubuntu computer. You can download Qt Creator for free for many Linux distributions, through the Discover app if you're using KDE Plasma. When I was finally able to test, I moved the files over to the Steam Deck, installed Qt Creator on my Steam Deck and then figured out the nuances there. Sudo commands would not function properly from the development version of the GUI, just as an FYI, but I knew that they worked from my previous testing. The install-GUI script also installs the minimum dependencies in order to compile, with hwinfo as well, which is needed for sudo-less grabbing of partition GUID info. Once the program was compiled though, it worked as I expected. That's just something to be ware of, if you go down the GUI route at some point. Thanks again for the feedback and info.

ryanrudolfoba commented 1 year ago

Yes the Clover config is overwhelming - 1100+ lines. But there is already a configuration GUI for it to easily edit it, but i dont wanna add it yet to the README as it might cause more issues in the end. It just needs python which is already installed by default in SteamOS so no extra dependency is needed.

Other than that i think im ready for the next release - i got some pretty good icons from the community which i will bundle in, plus some code updates, config updates and an experimental version so no need for scripts on the Windows side.

ryanrudolfoba commented 1 year ago

Closing this issue. Config setting provided but apparently this might also need a 3rd party driver to fix completely.

jlobue10 commented 1 year ago

Yes, thank you for the feedback. I will continue to investigate if a generic EFI touchscreen driver can be found (and works) to fix this issue.

Interesting about Clover, but I hear Mac or Mac related, and I'm immediately not interested... Why do they make simple things not simple?!? But I digress. Thanks again.

ryanrudolfoba commented 1 year ago

Just another tidbit about Clover - yes generally it is used for hackintosh. You can also load custom ACPI / DSDT tables. I've already disassembled my DSDT and try to patch it for Fan Control but this is all foreign to me so hopefully someone else can step in and continue with the DSDT patching.