Egalax Touchscreen on Raspberry

Posted on by s0n1c3

“Hello World!”
I did it! *Party*

How? don’t really know! But first comes first; the Problem:

As I received a 16″ eGalax resistive Touchscreen and wanted it to use with my fhem Homeautomation System running on  RPIB+, when plugged in, the cursor moved across the screen and there was only ONE click event, which never released, as if your left click got stuck.

The Solution:[credits]

change 40-libinput.conf at Touchscreen & Touchpad
sudo nano /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf
from Driver “libinput” to
Driver "evdev"

HID QUIRKS

echo 1040 > /sys/bus/hid/devices//quirks

my was 0003\:0EEF\:0001.0004, so:
echo 1040 > /sys/bus/hid/devices/0003\:0EEF\:0001.0004/quirks
did the Trick!
Unplug and Plugin again.

sudo -s root@pi:/home/pi# echo 1040 > /sys/bus/hid/devices/0003\:0EEF\:0001.000*/quirks root@pi:/home/pi# exit exit

now with Script! (not working)

sudo nano /etc/udev/fix_hid_multitouch.sh
 insert:
#!/bin/bash DEVICE=$1 echo 1040 > "/sys/bus/hid/devices/${DEVICE}/quirks"  EOF ######################
 /./etc/udev/fix_hid_multitouch.sh
 /./etc/udev/fix_hid_multitouch.sh: line 5: /sys/bus/hid/devices//quirks: Permission denied
 any ideas?
sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/65-hid_fix.rules insert:
 DRIVER=="hid-multitouch",
 ENV{MODALIAS}=="hid:b0003g0004v00000EEFp00000001", RUN+="/bin/sh
 /etc/udev/fix_hid_multitouch.sh %k"
 ######################
  ...some Infos: (OTB Settings) ~& lsmod
 Module Size Used by
 joydev 9766 0
 hid_multitouch 8969 0
 usbtouchscreen 13528 0
 evdev 11000 4
 cdc_acm 18406 2
 uio_pdrv_genirq 3666 0
 uio 9897 1 uio_pdrv_genirq
 hid_apple 5836 0  ~ $ xinput
 ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
 ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
 ⎜ ↳ eGalax Inc. USB TouchController Pen id=6 [slave pointer (2)]
 ⎜ ↳ eGalax Inc. USB TouchController id=7 [slave pointer (2)]
 ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
 ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
 ↳ Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
 ↳ Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] ~& xinput list 9
 eGalax Inc. USB TouchController id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
 Reporting 7 classes:
 Class originated from: 9. Type: XIButtonClass
 Buttons supported: 5
 Button labels: "Button Unknown" "Button Unknown" "Button Unknown" "Button Wheel Up" "Button Wheel Down"
 Button state:
 Class originated from: 9. Type: XIValuatorClass
 Detail for Valuator 0:
 Label: Abs X
 Range: 0.000000 - 4095.000000
 Resolution: 0 units/m
 Mode: absolute
 Current value: 3521.000000
 Class originated from: 9. Type: XIValuatorClass
 Detail for Valuator 1:
 Label: Abs Y
 Range: 0.000000 - 4095.000000
 Resolution: 0 units/m
 Mode: absolute
 Current value: 116.000000
 Class originated from: 9. Type: XIValuatorClass
 Detail for Valuator 2:
 Label: Abs MT Position X
 Range: -1.000000 - -1.000000
 Resolution: 0 units/m
 Mode: absolute
 Current value: 0.000000
 Class originated from: 9. Type: XIValuatorClass
 Detail for Valuator 3:
 Label: Abs MT Position Y
 Range: -1.000000 - -1.000000
 Resolution: 0 units/m
 Mode: absolute
 Current value: 0.000000
 Class originated from: 9. Type: XIValuatorClass
 Detail for Valuator 4:
 Label: None
 Range: -1.000000 - -1.000000
 Resolution: 0 units/m
 Mode: absolute
 Current value: 0.000000
 Class originated from: 9. Type: XIValuatorClass
 Detail for Valuator 5:
 Label: None
 Range: -1.000000 - -1.000000
 Resolution: 0 units/m
 Mode: absolute
 Current value: 0.000000 ~& uname -a
 Linux pi 3.18.8+ #763 PREEMPT Sat Feb 28 18:24:36 GMT 2015 armv6l GNU/Linux

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7 thoughts on “Egalax Touchscreen on Raspberry”

  1. Hi, I also have a same problem,
    could you help me?

    I tried as following.
    At first, mine is 0003\:0EEF\:0002.0005

    $ sudo -s
    # echo 1040 > /sys/bus/hid/devices/0003\:0EEF\:0002.000*/quirks
    # exit

    $ sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/65-hid_fix.rules

    DRIVER==”hid-multitouch”,
    ENV{MODALIAS}==”hid:b0003g0004v00000EEFp00000001″, RUN+=”/bin/sh
    /etc/udev/fix_hid_multitouch.sh %k”

    But doen’t work.
    Do you have any ideas?
    Thank you.

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    1. nice try via udev rules…. i use sudo -s and the echo cmd everytime i reboot the Pi, cause every skript i’ve tried won’t work, because of the sudo -s cmd.
      Did it work manually?

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  2. Hi, s0n1c3.
    Touch screen work well, although, I have not tried “65-hid_fix.rules” yet.
    Unfortunately, I don’t know how to write script without “sudo -s”.
    If I got to solve it, I’ll tell you later.

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  3. 😀 you were close…. perhaps that works…?
    ACTION==”add”, SUBSYSTEM==”hid”, ENV{VENDOR}==”eGalax_Inc.”, RUN+=”/bin/sh -c ‘echo 1040 >/sys$DEVPATH/quirks'”

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  5. after installing and deinstalling some galaxy drivers it works without the hidquirk fix.
    notable is the new blacklisted “usbtouchscreen” kernel extenstion plus some new udev rules… but haven’t got the time to sort it out

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  6. it wasn’t the blacklisted usbtouchscreen, it was/is a broken libinput driver, which will ultimately result in ignoring the device totally.

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