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Help - Spider - 2010-01-06 00:24

Bruno Wrote:Ciao Succo, (ti scrivo in inglese perche magari l'argomento interessa altri)
I suppose that the touchscreen works perfectly with other sw, and that you are able to use click functionalities with the OS.
Wrt to my problem, I ended up modifying and recompiling the code: my problem arises from incompatibility between SDL and my touchscreen

If you are a programmer, I suggest you the following approach:
download SDL library (http://www.libsdl.org/)
Then, download some SDL code for handling mouse events (like http://www.siforge.org/articles/2004/09/13-sdl_mouse_tile.html) and compile it.
Then check if you are able to interact with this application in the proper way ...

I hope not! If your touchscreen doesn't work with this sw and if you notice the same behaviour than in xbmc than ... you will know that it comes from the SDL library (xbmc is built upon this library).

In my case, I was quite lucky: I just changed one line (line 62: SDL_ShowCursor(0); putting 1 instead of 0), recompiled and my touchscreen started working perfectly!

When you will have solved your problem, come back in touch: you will discover that there is no way to simulate the right click(this event allows to go the parent menu) ... sorry I should say, there WAS no way!

I have now implement a finger movement recognition to run those kind of events: now my touchscreen works fine even with skins that have no 'back' buttons

-- unfortunatly aeon and MediaStream are still not compatibles --

Hi Guys,

I got a problem, i got a eGTalaxyTouch screen and want to let it work with XBMC under Linux
I Got the 9.11 live cd installed, installed drivers and configured xorg.conf.

The problem i get is that i cant use the pointer in full screen, when i touch the screen its going away.
When i switch to "Windowed" mode it works perfectly! does somebody has a clue where to look?
Will the "Dirty Patch" of Bruno as quoted fix my problem?
Hope somebody can and will help!

Thanks in advanced!


me too - oxist - 2010-06-16 00:19

I have an Elo Touchscreen and have exactly the same problem.
It was function in the past few months.
Now the touchscreen functionality its gone.
i dont know why.
i have tried to install xserver-xorg-input-evtouch again
any help, please


also - oxist - 2010-06-16 00:20

i have seen also the xorg.conf file and everything seems ok