This project is not actively supported anymore.
News
| 2003-11-29 touchscreen driver 1.01 released |
| A long time has passed since I last had a look at the driver and the Point510, in general. Now a few months ago, Nick Marshall tried the driver with the Point 1600 and found that a) it's is working (!) and b) it causes 100% CPU load when used with XFree86. Now I finally managed to fix this bug. Please try the new driver and you'll most probably find your 510/1600 much faster then ever... |
| 2002-05-07 touchscreen driver 1.0 released |
| After two "inofficial" releases of the touchscreen driver, we finally set up a page for it - next releases will be published here. |
| 2002-04-20 touchscreen protocol now understood |
| We finally managed to find out more about the touchscreen's protocol and its ioports and irq. Now we just need a driver... . |
| 2002-04-16 pages created |
| We needed a place to store all the point 510 stuff. - well, here it is (or will be). Today, only this and the kernel page got published. |
Booting the new kernel
Point 510: booting the kernel
To boot a kernel on the Point 510, you most probably have to compile one of your own, as you need EISA bus support. Furthermore, make sure to enable PCMCIA and APM support.
If may want to take a loot at my kernel configuration as a starting point. You can also download a complete kernel (2.4.18) here, but you have to copy the required modules for you PCMCIA cards to /lib/modules/2.4.18/pcmcia on your own...
This is work and progress! Both files contain stupid settings and may lack some things you need - so there is NO WARRANTY that these files won't fry your 510!.
When you have your kernel image ready, you might need to pass the "mem" parameter at boot time to tell the kernel how much memory is installed to your unit. In my case, I have to set mem=32mb. If you don't know how to set boot parameters, take a look at your loadlin.exe documentation, do a man lilo.conf etc. => RTFM
If you have questions, comments, additional information, please drop me a line!
