any touch screen experience there?

[Tim Writer]

Zbigniew Koziol <zkoziol-Zd07PnzKK1IAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:

> Just wonder if there is anybody around who knows something how touch screens
> work under Linux?
> 
> 
> The company I have some work with sells kiosks with touch screens. They
> operate on Windows. It would be wonderfull to change their OS to Linux,
> wouldnt it?
> 
> 
> At the moment I do not know much technical details, but I will know more,
> soon.

Try this:

    http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/XFree86-Touch-Screen-HOWTO.html

One of our clients builds Linux based point of sale systems and I helped them
out with the MicroTouch (IIRC) based on the above HOWTO.  It works under X as
a mouse without trouble.

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