Fujitsu P1620 Ubuntu Touchscreen Driver

A clean install of XP runs pretty slow on the Fujitsu P1620 touchscreen. But what to do to since that is the only OS that Fujitsu publishes touchscreen drivers for? Well, after scouring the net, I found that hacker Zmiq2 has adapted/created an Ubuntu driver for just this purpose.

Since some of the finer details of making this work on the P1620 specifically are strewn about in comments on his blog, etc., I thought I might as well centralize the info and relate my experience with this model.

At first, I tried installing the driver on Ubuntu 10.10 which failed so I reloaded the laptop with 9.04 and loaded the driver which worked nearly out-of-the-box.

I've put a copy of Zmiq2's driver on my Google Sites storage and created a tinyurl for it which is below. This is the fujitsu-usb-touchscreen-0.3.8 version which is the one I had success with:


http://preview.tinyurl.com/75afehs


Steps to install:

OS: Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
Driver: fujitsu-usb-touchscreen-0.3.8
Chassis: Fujitsu P1620

1. Download the driver in the link above, extract it and change directory to the newly extracted folder in a terminal.

2. Run the following commands from that directory:

make
sudo make install

3. I was not able to get the rotate or right mouse click features to work using the readme or manual installation of fjbtndrv. So on to calibration... :(

4. In my case, running the calibration tool listed in the readme also did not work. However, there is a workaround... I suggest manually editing the conf files as follows.

a. Run the following command from a terminal...

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/fujitsu_usb_touchscreen.conf

...and edit the file to look like this:

options fujitsu_usb_touchscreen touch_minx=108 touch_miny=353 touch_maxx=3911 touch_maxy=4000

b. Then run this command...

sudo nano /etc/hal/fdi/policy/fujitsu_usb_touchscreen.fdi

...and make the MinX/MinY section look like this:

<merge key="input.x11_options.MinX" type="string">108</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.MinY" type="string">353</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.MaxX" type="string">3911</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.MaxY" type="string">4000</merge>

Well, that was the fix for me. Hope this makes the world a better place for someone like it did me!