Touch Screen Issues

Brian Murray brian at ubuntu.com
Mon Mar 22 18:48:07 UTC 2010


On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 05:49:45PM -0700, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Erik Andersen wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >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.
> >
> 
> In particular, does click-and-drag work?

Yes, it does.
 
> >
> >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)?
> >
> 
> I've only tried this one.  It's USB- I plugged it in and checked
> /var/log/messages to see what to google for.  evtouch seems to be
> pretty common and works fine just by installing the ubuntu package.
> 
> It's completely unusable before it's been calibrated-- it thinks
> "up" is "down" and the usable screen is only 1/2 size.  So I ran the
> calibration program from the console.

My screen required no calibration in Lucid.
 
--
Brian Murray
Ubuntu Bugmaster
Days running lucid: 41
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