Once and for all — Toughbook touchscreen driver
In this post I’ll try to gather all possible drivers and solutions for touchscreen equipped Toughbooks.
Almost 60% of all questions about touchscreen enabled Toughbooks (CF-18, CF-19, CF-28, CF-29, CF-T2, CF-T4, CF-T5) are about touchscreen driver.
The “PS/2 Compatible Mouse” in Device Manager actually covers both the touchpad and the screen, and appears as a fully functioning device right after a new install of XP – there’s no separate device for the touchscreen itself. You have to replace this default driver with the official one from Panasonic here, unhelpfully and simply called “mouse driver”.
Download the mouse driver, extract all the files (Panasonic’s .exe file won’t run on anything but a compatible Toughbook, but 7zip can extract the files by itself), right-click the mouse in Device Manager and point it to Fidmou.inf instead.
Solution #0 CF18 MK1 Win XP
Download and expand mouse-touchscreen driver for MK1 (CF-18BXXX). Follow driver update procedure described earlier in this guide.
Solution #1 CF-T1/T2/T4 CF-18 MK2 Windows XP
Download Toughbook touchscreen driver package #1. Extract and follow driver update procedure described earlier in this guide.
After update, you might need to calibrate the screen. To start calibration procedure open folder where extracted drivers are located and run application named calvin.
Solution #2 CF-T5/T7, CF-18 MK3/MK4/MK5 Windows XP
Download touchscreen driver package #2 (newer version). Unzip and run ftsetup.exe. Restart computer. Run calibration utility if needed.
Solution #3 CF-18 MK4/MK5 Vindows Vista
Download and extract touchscreen update for Vista.
I’m running XP on a number of CF-29 Toughbooks and need to calibrate the pen for screen digitizing. I’ve not had any luck installing any of the drivers you’ve posted. Is there one specific to the CF-29? Thanks.