touchscreen problem

[samsung]

Hello, has this problem ever been fixed?

[Newguy2]

Hello, has this problem ever been fixed?

no, I've been checking with every update, no joy.  Ironically, I financially contributed to the gyro remote development even though i knew i wasn't going to buy any gyro remotes.  But i thought it would be good to give back and say thanks to Thom for all his great work and it was the gyro support that messed up the GenericHiddriver lol.  I gave with one hand and slapped myself with the other lol. 

[tschak909]

I can not reproduce the problem here, so I have no way to fix it. No I will not log onto a remote system to fix it, I have bigger bugs to squash.

-Thom

[tschak909]

i will take another whack at it.

-thom

[Crawtech]

Have you had a chance to  whack it yet tschak 
and if not can we help some how

Chris

[seagullarity]

tschak helped me to overcome this problem!

Symptoms: The touchscreen always brings up the Lighting "More" menu. The problem seems like every touch of the touchscreen clicks in the upper left hand corner.

Problem: The GenericHIDInterface drivers need to be rewritten. Currently, the event packet is being decoded incorrectly, and in fact the touchscreen device shouldn't even be grabbed by the GenericHIDInterface drivers. So let's just remove that functionality from the MD where the touchscreen is installed!

1) Checkout the svn source if you haven't already: svn co http://svn.linuxmce.org/svn/branches/LinuxMCE-0810/src

2) Comment out line 781 from /src/Orbiter/Orbiter.cpp: //pthread_create(&m_GenericHidThreadID, NULL, ProcessGenericHIDEvents, (void*)m_pGenericHIDInterface);

3) Download the libraries necessary to make the Orbiter. I downloaded the following libraries, though I might have more in the list than are necessary:

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libxtst6-dev libxtst-dev libxmu-dev libhid-dev libusb-dev libttf-dev libtexttools-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl-gfx1.2-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-sge-dev

4) Copy the files from /usr/pluto/lib into /src/lib (into your svn tree)

sudo cp /usr/pluto/lib/* ../../src/lib/

5) make clean ; make bin

6) Copy the Orbiter binary into /usr/pluto/bin on your MD.

7) Restart your MD.

Thats it! Obviously, this is a workaround and if anyone would like to work on fixing GenericHIDInterface, here's some words from tshack on the topic:

<TSCHAKeee> right now, there is a method in there that just looks for all the event devices in a directory, and grabs them
<TSCHAKeee> this needs to be changed to only grab the devices a template specifies.
<TSCHAKeee> this would solve the problem.
<TSCHAKeee> it doesn't exist
<TSCHAKeee> it would need to be specified i.e.
<TSCHAKeee> /dev/input/by-id/usb-Gyration_Gyration_RF_Technology_Receiver-event-mouse
<TSCHAKeee> with the ability to specify more of them by separating them with something like a |

[phenigma]

I know this post is going to piss off at least one person but...

TSCHAK was *PAID* for this work (and paid well).  Shouldn't TSCHAK fix it rather than pawning it off on someone else?  Why should others have to do the work that TSCHAK was paid for?

J.

[tschak909]

phenigma,

It did what it was supposed to do regarding the 3101 support. It caused an unforeseen problem with someone else.

I can't get to it at present, he wanted it now. So please, ********* ********** **********

-Thom

Edit: moderation applied by hari, tschak please watch your speech..

[hari]

I know this post is going to piss off at least one person but...

TSCHAK was *PAID* for this work (and paid well).  Shouldn't TSCHAK fix it rather than pawning it off on someone else?  Why should others have to do the work that TSCHAK was paid for?

J.

This will be fixed, is it in trac already?