HOWTO : Ubuntu 10.10 on Gigabyte TouchNote T1028X
Gigabyte TouchNote T1028X equipped with Intel Atom N280 and eGalax touch screen. It runs Ubuntu 10.10 flawlessly except touchpad and touchscreen. This tutorial is telling you how to overcome these problems.
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Step 1 :
Boot up the system and press "
Append "
*where
It will look like this :
Save and exit.
Step 2 :
Append the following to the file.
Step 3 :
Append the following to the file.
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 4 :
The current version of xinput-calibrator is 0.7.5 at the time of this writing.
Step 5 :
Reboot your system.
Step 6 (Optional) :
To calibration your system and edit the value to
Step 7 (Optional) :
Get uTouch (Multi-touch). However, this netbook does not support multi-touch. The following procedure does not causing harm to your system anyway.
Testing program.
That's all! See you.
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lsusb" shows the following :Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0eef:0001 D-WAV Scientific Co., Ltd eGalax TouchScreenStep 1 :
Boot up the system and press "
Ctrl+Alt+F2" to go to command prompt.sudo nano /etc/default/grubAppend "
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-grubStep 2 :
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.confAppend the following to the file.
blacklist usbtouchscreenStep 3 :
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.dsudo nano /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/05-evdev.confAppend 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"
EndSectionThe 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 :
The current version of xinput-calibrator is 0.7.5 at the time of this writing.
wget https://github.com/downloads/tias/xinput_calibrator/xinput-calibrator_0.7.5-1ubuntu1_i386.deb --no-check-certificatesudo dpkg -i xinput-calibrator_0.7.5-1ubuntu1_i386.debStep 5 :
Reboot your system.
Step 6 (Optional) :
To calibration your system and edit the value to
Step 3 when necessary.xinput_calibratorStep 7 (Optional) :
Get uTouch (Multi-touch). However, this netbook does not support multi-touch. The following procedure does not causing harm to your system anyway.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:utouch-team/utouch
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install utouchTesting program.
sudo apt-get install python-pymtpython /usr/share/pymt-examples/launcher-multi.pypython /usr/share/pymt-examples/games/bubblebattles/bubblebatte.pyThat's all! See you.