touch screens in ubuntu

Jacob Mansfield cyberjacob at gmail.com
Fri Oct 29 16:15:06 UTC 2010


I have my asus installed but the touch screen doesn't work. any ideas about
how to get it to work? it's an ET2010PNT
Jacob Mansfield
Programmer



On 26 October 2010 01:08, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 06:18 -0500, Billie Walsh wrote:
> > On 10/25/2010 01:27 AM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> > > On Monday 25 October 2010 02:15:47 am Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> > > (...)
> > >
> > > > > touchscreen? Anybody have experience? Are there many linux
> applications
> > > > > around supporting touch screens?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > >
> > > > > Kjetil
> > > > >
> > > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20013760-264.html
> > > >
> > > I would just like to say (nothing to do specialy with Jordon :) that I
> have
> > > been making some searches these last days and I have come across more
> > > messages like this one (just a link) that were useless because the link
> was
> > > dead.
> > >
> > > I think we should keep in mind that these mailing lists talks stay on
> the web
> > > longer than many sites keep their stuff online and add a short
> description of
> > > what we wanted to say.
> > >
> > > Thierry
> > >
> > >
> >
> > The link isn't dead. From the page:
> >
> > August 16, 2010 12:06 PM PDT
> > Ubuntu bringing multitouch to Linux
> >
> > The next version of Ubuntu will get multitouch interface abilities,
> > catching the Linux operating system up to Windows and Mac OS X in at
> > least one domain.
> >
> > "Every single major PC manufacturer has been asking for a touch story
> > on Linux. This has been one of the major missing points for Linux in
> > the PC ecosystem," said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the company
> > called Canonical that develops and supports Ubuntu. But multitouch
> > support will arrive in the next version of Ubuntu, 10.10, aka Maverick
> > Meerkat.
>
> I thought that old Kiosk effort worked with touch screens. Never saw
> one, but I assumed. I know, sign on my back sez "Kick me." Ric
>
>
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