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jhess

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Posted - 15 Sep 2009 :  14:16:19  Show Profile  Email Poster
The Catalyst board uses a Tsharc touch screen, which requires a special driver for Linux. The touch screen driver for the Catalyst is provided by the Hampshire Company.

Moblin
We include this driver in Moblin with our Catalyst development systems. To set up and calibrate the touch screen, follow these instructions.

  1. Click on the Terminal icon to open a Terminal window.
  2. Enter cd /home/Tsharc304 in the terminal window.
  3. Enter sudo ./install.sh
  4. When prompted for password, press Enter. The TSHARC Controller Setup version 3.0.4 will start.
  5. Enter 2 to select "Serial Controller on COM1".
  6. Enter 12 to install selected components.
  7. Enter boot.tsharc start to start the touch screen daemon.
  8. Enter ./tscal to start the touch screen calibration utility.
  9. Touch the screen momentarily as indicated then touch Accept box at the bottom of the screen.
After rebooting open terminal window and enter boot.tsharc start to start the touch screen daemon.


Other Linux distributions
To install and calibrate the touch screen driver on other linux distributions, follow these instructions.

Driver download:

  1. Open a web browser and go to http://www.microchip.com/tsharc/
  2. Click on the "Drivers/Utilities" link.
  3. Register for the driver download.
  4. Download the Linux version of the driver. These instructions document version 3.04c.


Installation:
  1. Open a terminal in the desktop environment on the Catalyst.
  2. Unpack the driver file you downloaded earlier by entering the command: tar zxvf Tsharc304c.tar.gz
  3. Enter cd TSharc304
  4. Start the installation program as root by entering sudo ./install.sh
  5. Enter 2 to select "Serial controller on COM1".
  6. Enter 12 to install selected components.
  7. To start the touchscreen driver enter boot.tsharc start
  8. Enter ./tscal to start the touch screen calibration utility.
  9. Touch the screen momentarily as indicated then touch the Accept box at the bottom of the screen.


Starting the touchscreen driver:

The touch screen driver will not be started automatically, and must be started after you log in to the desktop environment. To manually start it, open a terminal window and enter boot.tsharc start

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