Linux kernel 2.4.x / 2.6.x with XFree86 or xorg system. However, some special designs, our honor customers have to develop their own programs communicating with the touch panel controller firmware directly.

The last couple of days I've been busy getting Linux running on the Archos 9. This is how far I got so far. My Linux distribution of choice is Fedora so I used Fedora 11 i386 to try out Linux on the Archos 9. What works out-of-the-box with the default installation (i.e. No external repos used): Sound: Yes Mouse: No Touch screen: No Wireless: No Bluetooth: Yes Display: Only 800x600 via vesa driver (slow) Change screen brightness:? (not tested) Camera: Yes What works after installing additional software: Mouse: No Touch screen: No Display: 1024x600 with xorg-x11-drv-psb from rpmfusion Change screen brightness: Yes Wireless LAN: Yes, with kmod-wl drvier from rpmfusion Touch screen trouble The Archos 9 uses a touchscreen connected to a PS/2 port.

There are Linux drivers available (see ) unfortunately I could not get it working so far. The egalax X driver is loaded and the eGalaxTouch recognises it but no touch is being registered.

Mouse trouble The mouse seems to be a PS/2 device as well but just does not work for me. Maybe it is just some basic xorg configuration but normally such devices should work out of the box.

So basically Linux works on the Archos 9 but without a working mouse or touch screen it is not usable. Any hints and tips are welcome! Just I big warning.a very nasty thing happened. After I was done playing with Linux I booted back to Windows7.

After logging in a message popped up saying some program wanted attention. When I allow it, a message box popped up with garbled text (probably meant to be Chinese/Korean or something) and a choice of, supposedly yes or no. I opted for the right button (probably no) and all was good. After the next boot the message appeared again, this time I chose 'yes' and was greeted with a shutdown screen. After shutdown I had an unbootable system! I managed to reinstall GRUB to the MBR and I can now boot Linux and Windows7 again The program that was bothering was / is C: Program Files StarSoftComm StarOS3.0 SoSSrv.exe.

(it seems this is from an Chinese company) Other Archos 9 owners, could you check if you have this installed as well? So before installing other OSses better backup first! (gladly I did, although I did not have to use it) Last edited by on Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:20 pm, edited 1 time in total. I managed to get the touch screen responding. For information the kernel parameter that is required is i8042.noloop Hopefully this will help someone get a bit further. I'm still struggling to get the touchscreen to produce sensible results.

For instance the mouse on the right is working perfectly, but the touchscreen seems to be in a relative mode, and has its axes switched over or something like that. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to configure it. It appears to ignore xorg.conf settings. I've also tried mucking about with the fdi file used by hal, but it makes no difference.

I got the touchscreen working as a touchpad (relative motion) using the evtouch driver. Does anyone know how to get the touchscreen to switch to absolute mode? I suspect that there is some kind of conflict with the optical trackpoint, as when switching the rotation to get the touchscreen axes to match up, it switched the trackpoint direction too. Xinput shows that the touchscreen is recognized, and that it is in absolute mode, but it still behaves as though it were a touchpad. If you move your finger on the screen the cursor moves, but it doesn't matter where it is touched, just when you move your finger. Its close, but not quite close enough to be useful. For the record, I got this far in ubuntu karmic and mint 7.

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