From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 18:05:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B7E8106568F for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:05:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from frontmail.ipactive.de (frontmail.maindns.de [85.214.95.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 240788FC19 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:05:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from mail.vtec.ipme.de (Q7c2d.q.ppp-pool.de [89.53.124.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by frontmail.ipactive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3475212883F; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 20:05:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cesar.sz.vwsoft.com (cesar.sz.vwsoft.com [192.168.16.3]) by mail.vtec.ipme.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7EC02E913; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 20:04:17 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48EA5357.8050503@vwsoft.com> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:05:11 +0200 From: Volker User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080930) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Robey References: <48E90904.4020007@telenix.org> In-Reply-To: <48E90904.4020007@telenix.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1223921072.36924@3pKM85/myTEiDN4IDH12tg X-MailScanner-ID: A7EC02E913.E20B5 X-VWSoft-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com X-ipactive-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ipactive-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ipactive-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: touch screen recommendation? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:05:38 -0000 On 12/23/-58 20:59, Chuck Robey wrote: > I was wondering if anyone here had a recommendation for a touch screen, > specifically to run on FreeBSD? Any user report? I am wondering how this belongs to hackers@? Now the real answer: It depends. Touchscreen != Touchscreen, as there are different technologies available (better ask a sales person for your application). If you just want to get a "click" from a screen device, you can use any. First, I'm not aware of any working USB based devices working under FreeBSD (except mine, not yet released to public). There are other devices with RS-232 connectors for which you may find X.Org drivers in the port tree. For the usb devices, I've got working drivers for GeneralTouch ST-601U (buggy firmware, dumb tech support, not my preference, but it's working) and @-Touch SAWUSB. Next week I should have a working driver for Zytronic devices and one or two others. All for usb devices, everything for the BSDs only but not yet released.