ts_setup(3)

ts_setup3

Find, open and configure a touch screen input device

Usage

#include <tslib.h>

struct tsdev *ts_setup(const char *dev_name, int nonblock);

Overview

ts_setup() will try to find, open and configure the touch screen device. On success it allocates memory for a new touch screen device, opens and links the input event device to it and loads and initialises all modules configured in the tslib configuration file TSLIB_CONFFILE.

If dev_name is NULL ts_setup() will use the device defined by the TSLIB_TSDEVICE environment variable.

If TSLIB_TSDEVICE is not defined ts_setup() will try to use following devices:

/dev/input/ts,
/dev/input/touchscreen,
/dev/touchscreen/ucb1x00.

After that we ts_setup() scans /dev/input/event* for the first device with property INPUT_PROP_DIRECT.

Return value

A pointer to the opened struct tsdev is returned.

Releases

Unchanged in 5 releases since Debian 10 (Buster).

  1. 10–Arch

From tslib 1.24-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.