2.6 For Linux

Tested distributions: l• Red Hat 7.0 kernel version 2.2.16, l• Red Hat 7.1 kernel version 2.4.2, l• Red Hat 7.2 kernel version 2.4.7, l• Red Hat 7.3 kernel version 2.4.18-3, l• Red Hat 8.0 kernel version 2.4.18-14, l• Mandrake 8.0 kernel version 2.4.5 l• Mandrake 8.1 kernel version 2.4.8 l• Mandrake 8.2 kernel version 2.4.18 l• Mandrake 9.0 kernel version 2.4.19

TouchKit is software, which contains drivers and 2 utilities of the touch panel controllers for RS232 、PS/2 and USB on Linux operation system. The 2 utilities are as follows:

• Configuration support

The calibration and draw test of touch panel are done by this utility.

• Right button support

This is utility for emulating the right and left button of mouse through controlling touch panel. User can toggle between right or left mouse buttons by this utility.

Before install TouchKit for Linux, please make sure that (1) user have root privilege and that (2) X window system has been configured correctly.

Follow these steps to install TouchKit for Linux.

  1. 1. Put the TouchKit CD to CD-ROM and mount it on Linux file system; e.g. with command: “mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom”
  2. 2. Change directory to “/mnt/cdrom/Linux/Other Version”
  3. 3. Execute script “touchkit.setup.sh“ with command “sh touchkit.setup.sh”
  4. 4. The script will extract files to temporary directory and start installing:

TouchKit Touch Panel v3.1

The first step is to check if software configuration is ready to install and to utilize TouchKit. Installation will abort if some Common packages are missing; please reinstall TouchKit after all those packages being installed.

  1. Press ‘1’ or ‘2’ followed by ‘enter’ to select installation mode depending on the communication interface of TouchKit controller.
  2. If Full Mode is selected, installer starts building process.
  3. After building process completes successfully (or if Compact Mode is selected), TouchKit will be installed into system; user must restart X window system to see the change.
  4. For install Redhat 8.0, please repeat the step 1~ 6 as the same as other version of Linux. The difference between Redhat 8.0 and other version is the install directory changed to “/mnt/cdrom/Linux/Redhat8”. Execute script “touchkit.setupr8.sh“ with command “sh touchkit.setupr8.sh”. Two of software packages should be installed first, since they are not for default installation when installing OS.

TouchKit Touch Panel v3.1

(1) sharutils-XXX.rpm

(2) XF86Free-develXXX.rpm User can find these packages in disc3 and disc2 in RedhatLinux 8.0 distribution. Also, user can find these packages in this touchkit driver Redhat8.0 subfolder.

TouchKit Touch Panel v3.1