Hello kind helpers

I have recently renovated my old Paceblade Pacebook (Tablet PC). I used to have this running Suse 9.0. I have now installed opensuse 10.3 and I'm struggling to get the touchscreen working. There are two parts to the problem - the driver and the configuration.

The PC is pretty low-spec with a 600MHz Transmeta-crusoe processor and 640M ram but seems to be running fine with opensuse (apart from the touchscreen).

Under suse 9.0 I placed the pre-compiled driver "pacebook_drv.o" in:

/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/pacebook_drv.o

This location no-longer exists and I'm wandering where to put the driver. Any suggestions?

Under suse 9.0 I altered the /etc/X11/XF86Config file to include the following:

InputDevices "/dev/ttyS0"

as an addition to the Section "files"

InputDevice "Mouse[3]" "SendCoreEvents"

as an addition to the Section "ServerLayout"

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "pacebook"
Identifier "Mouse[3]"
Option "PDATimeout" "1000"
Option "PDANumber" "3"
Option "Debounce" "100000"
Option "PDAMode" "On"
Option "BaudRate" "19200"
Option "ButtonNumber" "1"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
Option "HistorySize" "0"
Option "InputFashion" "Touchpanel"
Option "Name" "PACEBLADE;PACEBOOK"
Option "Protocol" "imps/2"
Option "Rotation" "0"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "on"
Option "SwapXY" "0"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Active" "1"
Option "HorizontalMax" "1005"
Option "HorizontalMin" "0021"
Option "VerticalMax" "0984"
Option "VerticalMin" "0042"
EndSection

as a whole new Section.

Would this still be valid under xorg7?

I would be grateful for any suggestions. Many thanks, Neil

the touch screen driver was probably bundled or renamed into something else.

Pacebook sounds like the name of the whole system


check for the real name of the touchscreen

lspci -v

look for either a usb or serial input device.

my tablet uses a usb touchkit input driver

Thanks for your input but slight misunderstanding.

The driver for the paceblade touchscreen is not open source and does not come with any kernels or linux distributions. The driver for the paceblade is downloadable from the website www.paceblade.com.

make && make install merely copies the pre-compiled (and closed source) driver to the location: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/pacebook_drv.o and overwrites /etc/X11/XF86Config with the XF86Config file in the pacebook_toucreen_driver.tar file

My first question is: under x.org what is the most appropriate place to put this driver?
My second question is: is my xorg.conf file (see above) valid?