Touchscreens with linux can be quite a pain – even at the serial port. Since I am working at a project with an USB touchscreen, I have had to dig into it.

The result:

A touchscreen connected at the USB port gives – as many HID devices do – an event device. To be able to work with it, you need a proper driver for Xorg to translate the position- and click-events for the X-server, which can be found at your software repo.

The installation process is quite simple since Kenan offers a precompiled version which just needs to be loaded. The calibration has to be corrected by hand at the Y Axis. But if you’re through that, it’s finally time to come in touch with your computer…