xf86-input-tslib

X.org tslib input driver

how to use

xf86-input-tslib assumes you have only one touchscreen device available, see 80-tslib.conf. If there are multiple in your system, please specify one config section for each. xf86-input-tslib aims to make tslib easy to use and doesn't offer special configuration options.

• have tslib (libts) installed.
• download and extract.
• cd xf86-input-tslib into the extracted directory
• ./configure --prefix=/usr
• make
• sudo make install

Done. Configure your tslib's ts.conf (which is probably why you installed xf86-input-tslib in the first place :) ) and reboot.

To uninstall, again go inside the extracted directory, and do

sudo make uninstall

multitouch

if you use tslib 1.10 or higher (libts.so.0.7.0 or higher), you have multitouch.

calibrate (if not calibrated) before X starts the display

(untested :) If you use the linear module in ts.conf you want to calibrate your screen, using ts_calibrate. To do this once in case not already done, you'd add something like the following snippet to your display manager's init script

• /etc/gdm3/Init/Default for Gnome3's gdm
• /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup for X's display manager

• /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsetup for KDE's kdm and so on:

  TSCALIB_BIN=/usr/bin/ts_calibrate
  
  # calibrate touchscreen, if no calibfile exists
  if ! [ -f "${TSLIB_CALIBFILE}" ] ; then
      if ! ${TSCALIB_BIN} ; then
          echo "calibration failed!"
      else
          echo "calibration done."
      fi
  fi

To trigger re-calibration, simply delete the TSLIB_CALIBFILE file and reboot.

contact

• If you have problems or suggestions, feel free to open an issue.
• The tslib developers can be reached by writing emails to the tslib mailing list.
• X.org developers can be reached at the xorg-devel mailing list.

historical notes

In cooperation with Pengutronix, this Github repository builds upon the former source distribution. (Thanks Pengutronix, for hosting and all your awesome development work!) Development and main source distribution is now done on Github. In case Pengutronix continues mirroring future tarball releases, and thus provides backwards compatibility for downstream users: Thanks for your help :)