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Touchscreen = fail?

Do you have a touchscreen that isn't working in Ubuntu? We need your help! We are trying to get as many touchscreens working as possible for Karmic. Bug #317094 is attempting to collect hardware information about these them. As a first step, we'd like to enable the ones that can use the in-kernel usbtouchscreen driver. Do you have a touchscreen? Is it connected over USB? ( lsusb is your friend) Get the vendor and product id of the USB touchscreen (lsub) Load the usbtouchscreen module and add the new id to it through sysfs A made-up example follows (I don't have a touchscreen handy, sorry!) example output from lsusb Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0483:2016 SGS Thomson Microelectronics Fingerprint Reader 0483 is the vendor id, 2016 is the product id sudo modprobe usbtouchscreen sudo sh -c "echo 0483 2016 > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtouchscreen/new_id" Replace the vendor and product id with what you found from lsusb. If this makes your touchscreen work in Karmic, plea