I didn't want to endorse any one particular touchscreen in the article. The touchscreen is from here:
http://www.digitalww.com/56TSK.htm
It is an egalax screen. The manuals and drivers can be downloaded from the egalax website.
The touchscreen does behave like a mouse. Touch it, and the cursor moves. You can select items. Keep touching it, and it acts like a right click providing a menu. Maybe I am misunderstanding what you are asking though. Best place for researching this is likely the forums on www.mp3car.com.
It was a fun project. I don't expect folks to necessarily rush out and do the same or demand these on their next system. Hopefully it will help someone else out if they decide to do this with Linux. Yes, there are easier methods to do what I did. I tried to present both an easy way to do things and the hard way. The article documents most of the hard way because it was the route I took and also because this route obviously requires more documentation. The intent was to pull everything I found in my research together and also to give it a Linux slant. There are several "howtos" out there for the PSOne screen, but I didn't run across any that had a Linux focus (there may be some, just didn't find any myself).
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I didn't want to endorse any one particular touchscreen in the article. The touchscreen is from here:
http://www.digitalww.com/56TSK.htm
It is an egalax screen. The manuals and drivers can be downloaded from the egalax website.
The touchscreen does behave like a mouse. Touch it, and the cursor moves. You can select items. Keep touching it, and it acts like a right click providing a menu. Maybe I am misunderstanding what you are asking though. Best place for researching this is likely the forums on www.mp3car.com.
It was a fun project. I don't expect folks to necessarily rush out and do the same or demand these on their next system. Hopefully it will help someone else out if they decide to do this with Linux. Yes, there are easier methods to do what I did. I tried to present both an easy way to do things and the hard way. The article documents most of the hard way because it was the route I took and also because this route obviously requires more documentation. The intent was to pull everything I found in my research together and also to give it a Linux slant. There are several "howtos" out there for the PSOne screen, but I didn't run across any that had a Linux focus (there may be some, just didn't find any myself).
Summarized in the response to Joe Kewl above...
Yes, this is actually the application that I used the touchscreen for. The hardware is featured in the November CPU magazine. It works well with MythTV, lets you navigate the menus, etc. An excerpt from the article is here:e .asp?article=articles%2Farchive%2Fc0511%2F24c11%2F 24c11.asp&articleid=28671&guid=E32C504C6FF0444E887 913BB8925ED65&searchtype=0&WordList=&bJumpTo=True
http://www.computerpoweruser.com/editorial/articl
If you can take a look at the magazine, you'll get a better picture of how this is all setup. It was a fun project and the touchscreen interface was more elegant than say a Matrix Orbital LCD screen.