A10 with A13-LCD4.3TS: Problems with ts_calibrate

[NoreSoft]

Hello everybody,

I just got my first A10-OlinuXino-LIME board with an A13-LCD4.3TS Display. I am running Debian on it and by now it works fine.
But I have problems calibrating the LCD. When logged in as olimex, I cannot open ts_calibrate. I get the message "ts_open: Permission denied". I am able to run ts_calibrate as super user, but as described in the manual, this doesn't take effect.

Can you help me?

Kind regards,
David

[martinayotte]

Logged as "olimex" user, check if you have shell variable TSLIB_CALIBFILE="/etc/pointercal".
Also, check if the /etc/pointercal has been refresh/overwritten by ts_calibrate.
If not, maybe it has created a new one elsewhere, such /usr/etc/pointercal or /usr/local/etc/pointercal.
In such case, move it or copy it at proper place or even better do some symbolic links to unique location.

[NoreSoft]

Hi martinayotte,


thanks for your answer.

Logged as "olimex" user, check if you have shell variable TSLIB_CALIBFILE="/etc/pointercal".

Yes, I do.

Also, check if the /etc/pointercal has been refresh/overwritten by ts_calibrate.

I am not sure. At least not sure if it worked properly. I run "ls -l /etc/pointercal" after the ts_calibrate and the time shown there is actualized. That means, the file has been changed, doesn't it?
But if I have a look at the file by "cat /etc/pointercal", the output is not the same as at the end of ts_calibrate, where it writes "Calibration constants: ..."
In fact it seems, as if the numbers where only scrambled. Is this normal?

If not, maybe it has created a new one elsewhere, such /usr/etc/pointercal or /usr/local/etc/pointercal.
In such case, move it or copy it at proper place or even better do some symbolic links to unique location.

There is a file /usr/etc/pointercal. But after running ts_calibrate as super user, the date, that is listed under "ls -l /usr/etc/pointercal" did not change.


Kind regards
  David

[NoreSoft]

Hello everybody,


what worked was to copy /etc/pointercal to /usr/etc/pointercal . Apparently /etc/pointercal is the pointercal file for root and /usr/etc/pointercal for the user, isn't it? I don't quite understand it.

Also still interesting: Why can't I run ts_calibrate without being super user?


Kind Regards
  David