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The COMPUTEX Taipei 2008 had just concluded
last June 7 and our PenMount touch
controllers and drivers had drawn a lot of
attention from both local and overseas
buyers. There are many products using Linux,
such as POS (Point of Sales), kiosk, gaming
machine, monitor systems, etc.
Many economical type of laptop PC’s are
using the latest Linux distributions, such
as Ubuntu 8.04, Mandriva 2008.1, Slackware
12.1 with kernel 2.6.24, or Fedora 9,
openSUSE 11.0 with kernel 2.6.25. With these
new kernels installed, these laptops can
manage the input devices more efficiently
while supporting the USB hot plug function.
When combining with the newer X Window
System and packages, user can find using
Linux much more friendly than before.
However, since the Linux kernel and X Window
System have made some changes for the new
USB device auto detection, we would like
then to provide you with a simple brief on
those changes.
In the traditional X Window System, users
need to add some entries in the
configuration file xorg.conf when they want
to use new USB devices. If the settings are
correct, the X Window will load the specific
driver for the input device with the
parameters set in the configuration file.
However, if user typed in the wrong
keywords, the X Window will fail to load,
and will need a lot of time to fix it.
Starting from X Window X.Org X11R7.3 , which
includes the X Server 1.4 , when the system
detects new USB input devices, it will load
the default HID driver “evdev” , which
provides basic mouse, keyboard and touch
screen functions, therefore user need not
change the configuration file for X anymore.
However, since the touch screen controller
is not standardized, and PenMount USB is
driven by the HID driver in Linux kernel
first, there are many parameters needed to
be set in order to make PenMount USB device
work properly.
Take the Linux Fedora 9 for instance, the
PenMount USB driver works by using a
specific fdi configuration file for the X
Server 1.5 RC1 to load the PenMount driver
instead of the default “evdev”. Since the
device auto detection function of X Window
is not completed yet, the fdi file cannot
provide the parameters for devices like the
xorg.conf does. Therefore, if user prefer to
use the traditional way of device settings,
they must first disable the device detection
function of X; please read “readme” file in
the package of PenMount Linux driver for
more information.
Providing the best customer service is the
first priority of the PenMount team.
PenMount is already providing a complete
solution for Microsoft Windows system. For
the growing demand of Linux, PenMount is
also continuously adding function and
support. For older versions of Linux,
PenMount provides utilities for
automatically setting up the xorg.conf ; For
newer versions of Linux, PenMount provides
it's specific fdi configuration file. The
PenMount team provides complete service on
software development, and always adapts to
the market changes and customer needs.
For more PenMount controllers and
drivers information, please visit our
websites:
http://www.salt.com.tw and
http://www.penmount.com.
Please feel free to contact us at our email
address salt@salt.com.tw
or
service@penmount.com . |
