After many months of trying to get the touchscreen on an old CF-27 mk. 4 working, I was finally able to. The problem I ran into while searching for solutions was that the CF-27 mk. 4 uses a different touchscreen than the other CF-27's. It uses the same one as the CF-28 mk. 1, specifically a Fujitsu Lifebook B-series touchscreen. The touchscreen is multiplexed with the touchpad, and both are connected to the PS/2 port.
The good news is that Linux already has the driver! The bad news is that Linux doesn't know how to use it.
To get this to work, I modified the lifebook.c file and recompiled the psmouse.ko module. lifebook.c is found in drivers/input/mouse in the Linux source code.
In lifebook.c, replace:
Code:
/* Panasonic CF-28 */
.matches = {
DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Matsushita"),
DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "CF-28"),
},
.callback = lifebook_set_6byte_proto,
with
Code:
/* Panasonic CF-28 */
.matches = {
DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Matsushita"),
DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "CF27"),
},
.callback = lifebook_set_6byte_proto,
and compile the psmouse module. My makefile looks like this:
Code:
#
# Makefile for the psmouse driver from old kernel sources
#
obj-m := psmouse.o
psmouse-objs := psmouse-base.o synaptics.o alps.o lifebook.o trackpoint.o logips2pp.o elantech.o hgpk.o sentelic.o
#touchkit_ps2.o
all:
$(MAKE) -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd` modules
clean:
$(MAKE) -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd` clean
$(RM) Module.markers modules.order
Note that the Linux headers are required to build this. There should then be something in /lib/modules/<Distro>/build.
Also note that this is not a proper solution, as now CF-28 touchscreens will not work, but it gets the job done.
The newly build psmouse module goes in /lib/modules/<Distro>/kernel/drivers/input/mouse. On Arch, it needs to be gzip'ped. The module then needs to be reloaded with
Code:
modprobe -r psmouse
modprobe psmouse
That should activate the touchscreen, but it will be uncalibrated. The calibration utility I found, which works quite well, is xinput_calibrator. Download and install this, read the directions, and the touchscreen should be calibrated.
I recompiled the module on Arch with the 3.4.2 kernel, but I believe the same (or very similar) procedure will work with any kernel. I recall doing this sucessfully on Debian 6.0, with the default 2.6.32 kernel. I have only tried xinput_calibrator on Arch.
I hope this helps someone.
