htcpen: HTC Shift Touchscreen Driver for Linux

Here’s my first attempt to make the HTC Shift touchscreen working under Linux

Feel free to send me patches and ideas to improve the driver

Update: htcpen submitted to review for inclusion into Linux kernel.
Update2: htcpen has been included into the git input tree, it will be merged when 2.6.27 opens up.

Download

htcpen version 1.6 (2008-05-28)
htcpen-1.6.tar.gz
eGalax Xorg driver + TouchKit version 2.03
TouchKit-2.03.172.tar.gz

Install instructions

Download the tarball, extract it to some temporary directory, compile and install it:

# tar zxvf htcpen-1.6.tar.gz
# cd htcpen-1.6
# make
# make install

X.org configuration:

   # tar zxvf TouchKit-2.03.172.tar.gz
   # cd TouchKit
   # cp egalax_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/

Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and configure the following:

   Section \"InputDevice\"
         Identifier \"htcpen\"
         Driver \"egalax\"
         Option \"Device\" \"/dev/input/event_htcpen\"
         Option \"Parameters\" \"/var/lib/egalax.cal\"
         Option \"ScreenNo\" \"0\"
   Endsection

Into your “ServerLayout” section, add the following line:

    InputDevice \"htcpen\" \"CorePointer\"

After rebooting your system, udev should load the htcpen module automatically and create a symlink of the input device to /dev/input/event_htcpen.

To finish, run “TouchKit”, click on “Tool” tab and do the 25 point calibration.

htcpen demonstration video

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