HOWTO : Back|Track 5 r3 on Gigabyte TouchNote T1028X/M1028

Gigabyte TouchNote T1028X/M1028 equipped with Intel Atom N280 and eGalax touch screen. It runs Back|Track 5 r3 flawlessly except touchpad. This tutorial is telling you how to overcome this problem.

The kernel version of Back|Track 5 r3 is 3.2.6 and the touch screen is functioning flawlessly.

Touchscreen Hardware

"lsusb" shows the following :

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0eef:0001 D-WAV Scientific Co., Ltd eGalax TouchScreen

Step 1 :

Boot up the 32-bit version of Back|Track 5 r3 USB stick which is created by Unetbootin or DVD-ROM. On the menu screen, press "Tab" and append the following to the end of the line.

i8042.noloop=1 reboot=b

Then install as usual and then reboot.

Step 2 :

After login, enter the following :

nano /etc/default/grub

Append "i8042.noloop=1 reboot=b" to "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT".

It will look like this :

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i8042.noloop=1 reboot=b"

Save and exit.

Then execute the following commands :

update-grub
fix-splash

Then power off the computer and switch it on again.

That's all! See you.

HOWTO : Ubuntu 11.04 on Gigabyte TouchNote T1028X/M1028

Gigabyte TouchNote T1028X/M1028 equipped with Intel Atom N280 and eGalax touch screen. It runs Ubuntu 11.04 flawlessly except touchpad. This tutorial is telling you how to overcome this problem.

"lsusb" shows the following :

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0eef:0001 D-WAV Scientific Co., Ltd eGalax TouchScreen

Step 1 :

Boot up the system and press "Ctrl+Alt+t" to open a terminal.

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Append "i8042.noloop=1" to "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT".

It will look like this :

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i8042.noloop=1"

Save and exit.

sudo update-grub

Step 2 :

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

Append the following to the file.

blacklist usbtouchscreen

Step 3 :

Reboot your system.

That's all! See you.

HOWTO : Ubuntu 10.10 on Gigabyte TouchNote T1028X

Gigabyte TouchNote T1028X equipped with Intel Atom N280 and eGalax touch screen. It runs Ubuntu 10.10 flawlessly except touchpad and touchscreen. This tutorial is telling you how to overcome these problems.

"lsusb" shows the following :

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0eef:0001 D-WAV Scientific Co., Ltd eGalax TouchScreen

Step 1 :

Boot up the system and press "Ctrl+Alt+F2" to go to command prompt.

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Append "i8042.noloop=1 usbhid.quirks=0xeef:0x1:0x40" to "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT".

*where i8042.noloop=1 solves the touchpad probem.

It will look like this :

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i8042.noloop=1 usbhid.quirks=0xeef:0x1:0x40"

Save and exit.

sudo update-grub

Step 2 :

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

Append the following to the file.

blacklist usbtouchscreen

Step 3 :

sudo mkdir /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d

sudo nano /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/05-evdev.conf

Append the following to the file.

Section "InputClass"
   Identifier "eGalax"
   MatchProduct "eGalax"
   MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
   Driver "evdev"
   Option "SwapAxes" "off"
   Option "Calibration" "2 4100 11 4099"
EndSection

The value of calibration is "2 4100 11 4099" is perfect on my Gigabyte TouchNote T1028X (resolution 1366 x 768). However, you can change the value after doing Step 6 when necessary.

Step 4 :

The current version of xinput-calibrator is 0.7.5 at the time of this writing.

wget https://github.com/downloads/tias/xinput_calibrator/xinput-calibrator_0.7.5-1ubuntu1_i386.deb --no-check-certificate

sudo dpkg -i xinput-calibrator_0.7.5-1ubuntu1_i386.deb

Step 5 :

Reboot your system.

Step 6 (Optional) :

To calibration your system and edit the value to Step 3 when necessary.

xinput_calibrator

Step 7 (Optional) :

Get uTouch (Multi-touch). However, this netbook does not support multi-touch. The following procedure does not causing harm to your system anyway.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:utouch-team/utouch
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install utouch

Testing program.

sudo apt-get install python-pymt
python /usr/share/pymt-examples/launcher-multi.py
python /usr/share/pymt-examples/games/bubblebattles/bubblebatte.py

That's all! See you.

HOWTO : Ubuntu 10.04 on Gigabyte TouchNote T1028X

Gigabyte TouchNote T1028X equipped with Intel Atom N280 and eGalax touch screen. It runs Ubuntu 10.04 flawlessly except touchpad and touchscreen. This tutorial is telling you how to overcome these problems.

"lsusb" shows the following :

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0eef:0001 D-WAV Scientific Co., Ltd eGalax TouchScreen

Step 1 :

Boot up the system and press "Ctrl+Alt+F2" to go to command prompt.

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Append "i8042.noloop=1 usbhid.quirks=0xeef:0x1:0x40" to "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT".

*where i8042.noloop=1 solves the touchpad probem.

It will look like this :

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i8042.noloop=1 usbhid.quirks=0xeef:0x1:0x40"

Save and exit.

sudo update-grub

Step 2 :

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

Append the following to the file.

blacklist usbtouchscreen

Step 3 :

sudo nano /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/05-evdev.conf

Append the following to the file.

Section "InputClass"
   Identifier "eGalax"
   MatchProduct "eGalax"
   MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
   Driver "evdev"
   Option "SwapAxes" "off"
   Option "Calibration" "2 4100 11 4099"
EndSection

The value of calibration is "2 4100 11 4099" is perfect on my Gigabyte TouchNote T1028X (resolution 1366 x 768). However, you can change the value after doing Step 6 when necessary.

Step 4 :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtkmm-2.4-dev autoconf libtool

Go to "http://github.com/tias/xinput_calibrator/downloads" and download the latest version of xinput-calibrator. The current version at this writing is 0.6.1.

tar -xvzf tias-xinput_calibrator-v0.6.1-0-gd2ce98b.tar.gz

cd tias-xinput_calibrator-d2ce98b
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

Step 4a (Optional) :

Or, you can build your debian package by using checkinstall.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtkmm-2.4-dev autoconf libtool checkinstall

Go to "http://github.com/tias/xinput_calibrator/downloads" and download the latest version of xinput-calibrator. The current version at this writing is 0.6.1.

tar -xvzf tias-xinput_calibrator-v0.6.1-0-gd2ce98b.tar.gz

cd tias-xinput_calibrator-d2ce98b
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall

Follows the instructions on the screen provided to generate your debian package.

Then install the package by using "sudo dpkg -i package_name.deb".

Step 5 :

Reboot your system.

Step 6 (Optional) :

To calibration your system and edit the value to Step 3 when necessary.

xinput_calibrator_x11

That's all! See you.