Supports (USB HID)touch function?

[David]

Hi,

Will rEFInd support (USB HID)touch screen function in the near future?
Please advice.

Thanks,

David

[Roderick W. Smith]

Not in the near future unless somebody sends me the code. I'd like to get this working, but I have very limited time to work on it, and only a couple of computers that I might be able to use for testing. (My hunch is that this feature will require a special driver and/or will work differently on different computers, and so will require extensive testing on many machines before it works properly.)

[BRB 8Two]

I found a EFI Touch Screen Test Tool here;
https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&solutionid=sk93032

[BRB 8Two]

I'm dual booting Android x86 (4.4r3) and Windows 8.1 using rEFInd as the boot manager. I don't currently have a way to select Android at boot without a keyboard. Attached is a suggested Icon for Android that I found online.

[Roderick W. Smith]

Thanks for the pointer, but that tool looks like a binary blob that doesn't do anything useful from a rEFInd perspective. Without source code, I can't learn anything from it or extend rEFInd's functionality with code from that program. (Even with source code, the license would have to be compatible.)

[BRB 8Two]

Hi Roderick W. Smith
Download-Fritz indicated he had some code for absolute pointers on a similar project Clover EFI.
https://sourceforge.net/p/cloverefiboot/discussion/1726372/thread/7dd6fb1c/#49a3

Perhaps you can talk to about if it may fit in or a way to make it a general driver that might work with both.

If you need a tester I've got a ASUS TX300 and the touch input appears to work with HP's uEFI "HP Tools" and the test program that I linked above. (I can launch the language selection EFI program before it kicks me out because I'm not running a HP BIOS)