Touch Screen Issues

[Erik Andersen]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:23, Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 05:32:27PM -0700, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I want to inquire about the state of touchscreen development in Ubuntu.
> >   I recently built a touch-screen-only system running Karmic and I'm
> > generally happy with it (the OS is pretty heavy weight, lots of caching
> > to disk, etc, but that is the way of things in this Aero-Aqua-world) but
> > the touch screen support is lacking.  I'm using xorg-input-evtouch.
>
> I'm running Lucid on a touchscreen system and am not having many of the
> issues that you mention.  I strongly recommend downloading Beta 1 and
> testing it, even as a Live CD, with your system.
>

I was considering buying a touch screen and am curious: Are different
screens more or less driver supported as far as touch (like wireless
devices) or is it pretty standard (like usb devices)?
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