Fujitsu P1610 Touchscreen

There is a setting for the Fujitsu Touchscreen in SaX2 (YaST -- Hardware -- Graphics Card and Monitor). Look under Touchscreen. However, during the SaX2 test procedure, there is no evidence that the touchscreen is working.

Ubuntu users report that the samengstrom touchscreen driver for the P1510 can be made to work, if you modify the Perl script to use the P1610's dimensions. Unfortunately, the default openSuSE 10.2 install does not have the Perl module required (X11::GUITest) to use the samengstrom script.

Following the instructions on the samengstrom web-page...

# perl -e shell -MCPAN 

cpan> install X11::GUITest

Results in an error, as one of the X11::GUITest test modules fails. As a result, X11::GUITest is not installed after being compiled. I `forced' the install with...

cpan> force install X11::GUITest

To find out the Port and IRQ of /dev/ttyS0 you need to install package `setserial'

setserial -g /dev/ttyS0

In my case, the following commands work (as root)...

# setserial /dev/ttyS0 irq 4 port 0x220 autoconfig

# chmod a+rwx /dev/ttyS0

Samengstrom's perl touchscreen driver can then be executed as normal (non-root) user. A version of this script already modified for the P1610's screen dimensions can be found on tylmad's website.

Unfortunately, if you rotate the screen, the touchscreen driver should also be re-started to take account of the new screen dimensions. The fix to this problem is very briefly sketched out in a post by mark.w in the LeoG ultraportable forum .