1 README on the ADC/Touchscreen Controller
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4 The LH79524 and LH7A404 include a built-in Analog to Digital
5 controller (ADC) that is used to process input from a touchscreen.
6 The driver only implements a four-wire touch panel protocol.
8 The touchscreen driver is maintenance free except for the pen-down or
9 touch threshold. Some resistive displays and board combinations may
10 require tuning of this threshold. The driver exposes some of it's
11 internal state in the sys filesystem. If the kernel is configured
12 with it, CONFIG_SYSFS, and sysfs is mounted at /sys, there will be a
15 /sys/devices/platform/adc-lh7.0
17 containing these files.
19 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 1 00:00 samples
20 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 1 00:00 threshold
21 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 1 00:00 threshold_range
23 The threshold is the current touch threshold. It defaults to 750 on
29 The threshold_range contains the range of valid values for the
30 threshold. Values outside of this range will be silently ignored.
35 To change the threshold, write a value to the threshold file.
37 # echo 500 > threshold
41 The samples file contains the most recently sampled values from the
42 ADC. There are 12. Below are typical of the last sampled values when
43 the pen has been released. The first two and last two samples are for
44 detecting whether or not the pen is down. The third through sixth are
45 X coordinate samples. The seventh through tenth are Y coordinate
49 1023 1023 0 0 0 0 530 529 530 529 1023 1023
51 To determine a reasonable threshold, press on the touch panel with an
52 appropriate stylus and read the values from samples.
55 1023 676 92 103 101 102 855 919 922 922 1023 679
57 The first and eleventh samples are discarded. Thus, the important
58 values are the second and twelfth which are used to determine if the
59 pen is down. When both are below the threshold, the driver registers
60 that the pen is down. When either is above the threshold, it
61 registers then pen is up.