Comments on: Ubuntu on a UMPC; I miss the touchscreen!

By: lcdglobal

lcdglobal — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:22:43 +0000

I think next realease will remove current problems.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:06:08 +0000

ideally we need to get this pushed into debian, down to ubuntu, and therefore the next ubuntu release it "just works" (tm)

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 06:46:33 +0000

Brenda and Carsten: thanks for the additional info. I see that Carsten did get the touchscreen working, so I may pursue this when time allows. Although I'd still be missing HWR, I wouldn't need a mouse if I could get the touchscreen working...gets me closer! Thanks again.

By: Carsten

Carsten — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 06:37:26 +0000

For the resolution and touch screen just look here: http://foto-cs.de/blog/item/213 It's not too difficult to get it working: ;-) But anyway, as there's no HWR available for Linux AFAIK, the touch screen isn't of much use on Linux yet.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:38:26 +0000

i’ll have to hassle Pete on monday and see if he’ll u help get the samsung touch screen going. Pity you’re in such a distant timezone ;-)

The stuff on the howto applies to almost any touchscreen on linux, so Samsung included. Give it a go. never looked into handwriting recognition but i’m sure google has much info.

and i thinks we should try bugging samsung for a demo unit….

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:18:30 +0000

JonGH did guess correctly, but no ink due to no touchscreen. As I'm a Linux n00b, I'll need some time to figure out the touchscreen solution, assuming there is one. The Sony UX screen works with some updates, so here's hoping the Q1 will work too...

By: ctitanic

ctitanic — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:02:00 +0000

I prepared or installed at work Ubuntu in a VMWare machine and I was planing to run that machine in my eo. I think that this well be a lot faster than run it from a CD.

By: JonGH

JonGH — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:18:48 +0000

I guessed correctly then!!

I tried the Knoppix Live CD today and I think that it is slightly better than Ubuntu. I could access all my Windows drives and files and since I want to use this as a future rescue disc this was the clincher for me.

Were you able to ink in Linux?

By: JKK

JKK — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:08:26 +0000

Nice job!
Most tablets have special bios settings to run the touchscreen, thats why it dont work with non xp tablet os even with right drivers…
This can be tested by installing normal xp to the device… touch should not work there ..

so.. ask nontablet bios from sammy ;)

By: e

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:47:03 +0000