IBM SurePOS 4840 w/ SuSE 10.2 - Touchscreen won't work
 

Hello folks.

I have an IBM SurePOS model 4840 POS machine I acquired running SuSe 10.2.

It's a point of sale system I have converted into a web-surfing box. Works great with a mouse and such, but it would be reeeealy awesome if I could get the touchscreen to work. Sadly, SuSE doesn't support it out of the box, and I can't find anyone on the internet that has tried to make it work. I was wondering if anyone knows of a driver or how to configure it or something.

I've searched everywhere, and since IBM has been moving stuff around, most of the links I find pointing to help are dead.

Now, I know the touchscreen works under XP perfectly, but we all know windows needs to go die in a fire sometimes. :)

Any help/guidance would be great.
Thanks again!

have you tried the elo Linux touch screen drivers ?

I couldn't tell you if your screen is by elo or not, but they are one of the most common touch screen manufacturers..
http://www.elotouch.com/Support/Down...dnld.asp#linux


Maybe go through the touch screen documentation first..
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree86-Touch-Screen-HOWTO.html
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_setup_touchscreen
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork.../l-playscreen/

well that sure helps alot more than what i had!

i'll give it a whirl and see what happens.

thanks! :)

Now I'm stuck....
 

Well, I downloaded the drivers, and started following the directions in the readme file.

I copied the stuff to the /elo folder, then went on to start building the driver...

Seemed pretty straightforward, but now I've run into this, and don't know how to fix it..


I have no freakin' clue what to do now...