HOWTO : Ubuntu 10.04 on Gigabyte TouchNote T1028X

Gigabyte TouchNote T1028X equipped with Intel Atom N280 and eGalax touch screen. It runs Ubuntu 10.04 flawlessly except touchpad and touchscreen. This tutorial is telling you how to overcome these problems.



"lsusb" shows the following :



Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0eef:0001 D-WAV Scientific Co., Ltd eGalax TouchScreen



Step 1 :



Boot up the system and press "Ctrl+Alt+F2" to go to command prompt.



sudo nano /etc/default/grub



Append "i8042.noloop=1 usbhid.quirks=0xeef:0x1:0x40" to "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT".



*where i8042.noloop=1 solves the touchpad probem.



It will look like this :



GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i8042.noloop=1 usbhid.quirks=0xeef:0x1:0x40"



Save and exit.



sudo update-grub



Step 2 :



sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf



Append the following to the file.



blacklist usbtouchscreen



Step 3 :



sudo nano /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/05-evdev.conf



Append the following to the file.



Section "InputClass"

   Identifier "eGalax"

   MatchProduct "eGalax"

   MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"

   Driver "evdev"

   Option "SwapAxes" "off"

   Option "Calibration" "2 4100 11 4099"

EndSection



The value of calibration is "2 4100 11 4099" is perfect on my Gigabyte TouchNote T1028X (resolution 1366 x 768). However, you can change the value after doing Step 6 when necessary.



Step 4 :



sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtkmm-2.4-dev autoconf libtool



Go to "http://github.com/tias/xinput_calibrator/downloads" and download the latest version of xinput-calibrator. The current version at this writing is 0.6.1.



tar -xvzf tias-xinput_calibrator-v0.6.1-0-gd2ce98b.tar.gz



cd tias-xinput_calibrator-d2ce98b

./autogen.sh

./configure

make

sudo make install



Step 4a (Optional) :



Or, you can build your debian package by using checkinstall.



sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtkmm-2.4-dev autoconf libtool checkinstall



Go to "http://github.com/tias/xinput_calibrator/downloads" and download the latest version of xinput-calibrator. The current version at this writing is 0.6.1.



tar -xvzf tias-xinput_calibrator-v0.6.1-0-gd2ce98b.tar.gz



cd tias-xinput_calibrator-d2ce98b

./autogen.sh

./configure

make

sudo checkinstall



Follows the instructions on the screen provided to generate your debian package.



Then install the package by using "sudo dpkg -i package_name.deb".



Step 5 :



Reboot your system.



Step 6 (Optional) :



To calibration your system and edit the value to Step 3 when necessary.



xinput_calibrator_x11



That's all! See you.