Bad eeprom error

[metalx1000]

I've been trying to get my Egalax USB touchscreen calibrated. Currently in Linux When I move my finger right the cursor goes down and when I move left it goes up and so on.

I finaly got the drivers compiled (on my Mandriva 2007).

But, I get a bad eeprom error when I try to do a 4 point calibration.

I found a link that gave the following suggestion

Add the call to Send4PtData() and a re-read(marked in bold) of the eeprom
in main_() of 4pcal.c

if (CachedReadEEPROM(RomFile, deviceFD, eeprom))
	{   printf("bad eeprom\n");
                 Send4PtData();
	    if (CachedReadEEPROM(RomFile, deviceFD, eeprom))
		{		Dev_RestoreState(deviceFD);
		 close(deviceFD);
		 return 0;
		}
	}

Doing so allows me to move on past the Error when I type "#./4pcal /dev/tkdat0"

I still get the error, but then the Calibration screen comes up with the 4 crosses, one which is blinking. and I'm told to press the blinking one untill I hear a beep. Well I press it and nothing. I sit there untill it times out. I get the same with 25 point calibration.

My xorg.conf looks as follows

# File generated by XFdrake (rev 57713)

# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the xorg.conf man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************

Section "Files"
    # font server independent of the X server to render fonts.
    FontPath "unix/:-1"
    
    # minimal fonts to allow X to run without xfs
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    #DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
    #DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
    AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
    Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
    Load "extmod"
    Load "type1"
    Load "freetype"
    Load "glx" # 3D layer
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Keyboard1"
    Driver "kbd"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Mouse1"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "monitor1"
    VendorName "Plug'n Play"
    ModelName "SDM-HS74P"
    HorizSync 28-81
    VertRefresh 48-75
    
    # Monitor preferred modeline (60.0 Hz vsync, 64.0 kHz hsync, ratio 5/4)
    ModeLine "1280x1024" 108 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
    
    # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
    # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
    ModeLine "768x576"     50.00  768  832  846 1000   576  590  595  630
    
    # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
    ModeLine "768x576"     63.07  768  800  960 1024   576  578  590  616
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "device1"
    VendorName "nVidia Corp."
    BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"
    Driver "nv"
    Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "screen1"
    Device "device1"
    Monitor "monitor1"
    DefaultColorDepth 24
    
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 8
        Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
    EndSubsection
    
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 15
        Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
    EndSubsection
    
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 16
        Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
    EndSubsection
    
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 24
        Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240"
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "layout1"
    InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    Screen "screen1"
        InputDevice    "TKPANEL" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection
## TouchKit section begin (Please do NOT edit this section!!) ##
	Section "InputDevice"
		Identifier  "TKPANEL"
		Driver      "touchkit"
		Option      "Device"        "/dev/tkdat0"
		Option      "DebugLevel"    "0"
	EndSection
## TouchKit section end ##

the info for the touchscreen being at the end.

If I try to
"./4pcal /dev/ttyS0"
and
"./4pcal /dev/ttyS1"
and a bunch of others but they only give me the bad eeprom not even the calibration screen.

any suggestions would be great.
thanks

[Tim_Wright]

I would venture as far as to say that the eeprom is damaged in some way (just by the sheer volume if errors) or mabey the code is a little dodgy. Anyone else have ideas?

Tim

[metalx1000]

I was my mistake. I download a kernel source for the wrong kernel. I found this out once I fix a few other problems (all of which were user error)

I got it all working great now. Thanks for all the help

[Tim_Wright]

Help? lol. It was one post Glad its working for you.

Tim