I'm trying to load a touchscreen on a tablet pc, and recently received a short guide on how to make it work from another person using the same tablet. He is using Debian with a 2.6 kernel, I am using Slackware 11 with the 2.4.3 kernel (it had been originally thought that the kernel had to be a 2.4).

Here are the instructions he gave me:

1. modprobe evdev and mk712

2. go to /proc/bus/input and check the devices file, you should see the
mk712 as well as any handlers it's associated with (likely inputx and
mousex)

3. Now go to /dev/input/inputx and cat it.

4. Touch the screen and you should see text "spewing"

I got to the...first step. I put my kernel modules package together myself, and the evdev and mk712 modules are there. The modprobe does not return any errors at all. My problem starts on number 2: I don't have /proc/bus/input. I have pccard and pci. I don't have /dev/input/inputx either.

He did say that udevd seemed to be required, but as this is a 2.4 kernel, I can't use udevd. I'm not sure if that is my problem or not, but the original operating system on the tablet used either a 2.2 or 2.4 kernel, 2.6 hadn't come out yet, so I'm not sure what exactly I need to do.

Any help is greatly appreciated, I'm feeling a little confused right now.

Not much help here, but if you still got the old distro (I think you mentioned it in your thread wrt buying the hardware) maybe loopmount the ISO or load it up in VMware, QEmu or Virtualbox to see what it uses and how? I know you've been working on getting 2.4 to run for some time now, but if 2.6 will make things easier (efficient, better manageable), then should you really continue with 2.4?