Re: grub2 and touch screen

[Michael Zimmermann]

if this is the case it should actually by kinda easy.

You may want to take a look at this project to get an idea of how to implement the UI part of this: 

https://bitbucket.org/byteit101/grub-mouse.git

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden> wrote:

В Wed, 24 Jun 2015 20:15:23 +0200
Michael Zimmermann <address@hidden> пишет:

> doesn't your device have any buttons(volume?) without the keyboad?
> That would be way easier then adding touchscreen support especially if UEFI
> doesn't provide a API for that(which I guess it doesn't).
>

Actually UEFI defines both relative and absolute pointer protocols.
Writing driver for it would be interesting project (not sure of GSoC is
still relevant, related pages on grub web site were not updated for
years; I also do not know who is responsible for content).

> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Theodore Christophe <
> address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > hello all,
> >
> > First of all, thank-you for your works.
> >
> > I have installed Fedora21 on my laptop (Medion all in one) with dual boot,
> > and every-thing is working fine.
> > Grub2 give me the choice between win8.1 and FC21, and other rescue.
> >
> > BUT when I use my laptop as touch pad (by removing the screen), with no
> > keyboard, I could not select the boot I want to use. Fedora is the default
> > and the touch screen is working fine after.
> >
> > Do you think that grub can manage the touch screen (something like two
> > button win81 and FC21) ?
> >
> > Thank you for your attention,
> > Christophe
> >
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