Re: grub2 and touch screen

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden> wrote:
> В Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:06:42 +0200
> Theodore Christophe <address@hidden> пишет:
>
>> 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) ?
>>
>
> Somebody would need to write driver for it (assuming it is technically
> possible in firmware at all). I think I have seen reports that using
> hardware buttons worked for selecting menu entries, but it may be
> hardware dependent.
>
> As Michael, I think adding support for hardware buttons looks more
> promising.


How does grub currently support the hardware buttons?

On Asus T300 Chi, the EFI boot menu reads volume + and - buttons as up
and down, while windows button function as "enter". However grub reads
volume + as "enter" as well, so I only have volume - (down) for moving
between menu entries.

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Fajar