The manual shows how to gain access to the display and the touchpad so hopefully this is of some help. Not sure that it would be a loose cable as it appears that there is only the display cable between the motherboard and the display so I think that the touchscreen wires would be in it and it would be unusual for only the touchscreen to be affected and not some parts of the screen as well. In fact, Id bet that touch on a Mac would feel about the same as touch on a Windows laptop - a feature thats usually built in by default and is there when you want it, but easy to ignore the. If it isn’t disabled and it works OK in BIOS, check the touchscreen in Device Manager (not sure where it is located but maybe check in Device Manager > Human Interface Devices or > Mice and other pointing devices to check that it is installed OK by the OS. According to the service manual (see p.61) the touchscreen will always work in BIOS irrespective of this setting. Once in BIOS go to Table 8 System Setup Options - Display Menu > Touchscreen and check that it is enabled. To enter BIOS shutdown the laptop in the normal manner and then restart it and press the F2 key immediately after the laptop starts. Right-click the taskbar to bring up your taskbar options context menu Check the Show touch keyboard button To open the touch keyboard at any time, tap the. This should load up the calibration tool and you should have a X in the top left to press, when you do, you are moved to the top right, then bottom right, then bottom left and finally the centre of the screen.Check that the touchscreen has not been accidentally disabled in BIOS.Type in ls and press enter (This will list all files and folders in the current Directory)Ĭheck to see if your new directory, tslib is listed. Type in cd /data/system and press enter (This will change the current directory to /data/system.

Type in mkdir /data/system/tslib and enterenter (This should make a directory/folder called tslib inside /data/system Type in stop zygote and press enter (This will stop the Android GUI) (All commands are in the quotes and Linux is case sensative, so please copy exactly.

How to get touch screen