Re: Touchscreen coordinates mangled on X/GPE in RC4

On 5/24/06, Olivier Berger <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Justin Patrin" <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > On 5/23/06, Olivier Berger <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> I don't know exactly when/how it started, but at some time, after
> >> resuming from suspend, I found X unuseable.
> >>
> >> The coordinate system of the touchscreen and of the pointer displayed
> >> are desynchronized.
> >>
> >> Whenever I tap, I see the pointer move but not under the place where I
> >> tapped...
> >>
> >> This happens with RC4 gpe on my akita...
> >>
> >> Will try to provide better diagnostics.
> >>
> >> In the meantime, am I alone with that bug ? Never happened in the past
> >> with previous RCs :(
> >>
> >
> > Start up a terminal and type:
> > xtscal
> > Then recalibrate and you should be fine again. There may also be a
> > calibration icon in settings, not sure, but xtscal is the right thing
> > to run.
> >
>
> Well, I had tried to recalibrate using the System Setup tool (which I
> fortunately could launch using the keyboard), so I suppose I launched
> xtscal, then... but that didn't help. Whenever I tried to tap on a
> target, it wouldn't be hit :(
>
> I unfortunately had another failure which bricked my Z later on
> (report to come in another post) and am not able to replay the
> situation :(
>
> But before starting the calibration tool, I noticed that at some time,
> maybe after opening and rotating the screen (I don't remember
> exactly), I got the pointer to move in exact oposite direction from
> where I would drag it...
>
> For what it's worth...
>
>
> Something else, also, after full reinstall (including NAND), I  notice that by
> default, on the akita, with screen opened (keyboard accessible, not
> rotated), the Display is set to "Portrait" in the Screen Setup
> utility... wouldn't it normally be landscape in that case ?
>
> I guess that maybe this could be linked to my problem ?
>
> Hope the description of the problem is clear and it triggers someone's
> mind ;)
>

If you move the cursor and the axes seem to be off that's a rotation
problem. Are yu calibrating in Landscape or Portrait? I've always
calibrated in Landscape on my spitz and it's worked fine.

-- 
Justin Patrin


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