I recently upgraded updated my notebook to Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. For the most part it went well, as is to be expected with a clean install. For a while now I have just backed up my home directory and reinstalled rather then doing upgrades – its just a smoother ride. Perhaps the biggest hiccup was getting the touchscreen working again. The script I wrote for 9.o4 kept stalling out halfway through. It wouldn’t even tell why, it would just stop responding and I would have to escape out at the terminal. I futzed around with it for a little while and then noticed that the touch screen was working. So while something was going wrong and I never really found out what, it did eventually take.
I finally got back to the script; I first went through it editing it for readability and then tweaked a few things I had broken with my futzing, finally I added sudo in-line so the script can be launched by any user with sudo privileges. I never did figure out what had happened; there are no major differences between this script and the last one so they ought to be inter changeable. Anyway at long last pstouchscreen-2.1.sh Continue reading
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