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Old 12-17-2006, 04:42 PM   #1
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Question 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!

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Old 12-18-2006, 11:00 AM   #2
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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/

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Old 12-18-2006, 11:14 AM   #3
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well that sure helps alot more than what i had!

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

thanks!
 
Old 12-18-2006, 08:12 PM   #4
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Angry 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..

Quote:
linux-ibmpos1:~/usb2.0/wrapper # make -f Makefile
building for 2.6
make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=/root/usb2.0/wrapper modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18.2-34'

WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-2.6.18.2-34/Module.symvers
is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.

Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
/bin/sh: scripts/mod/modpost: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [__modpost] Error 127
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18.2-34'
make: *** [all] Error 2
linux-ibmpos1:~/usb2.0/wrapper #

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


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