[sf-lug] touchscreens

[John Lowry]

Lilliput has good Linux support is my understanding.
http://www.lilliputweb.net

As a side note check out this awesome car project that uses MythTV as a 
carputer.
https://www.timekiller.org/carpc/index.php

Nathan Hoover wrote:
> For my purposes, 15-17" is fine. The idea popped into my head when I saw 
> a touchscreen for auction on our site (www.dovebid.com 
> <http://www.dovebid.com> is my employer) - unfortunately I bid a little 
> too little, it ended up going for $82 I think. What I want is something 
> to put on the wall in my foyer or hallway that anyone could use to get 
> basic info like weather/stocks/headlines, control the house if/when I 
> get that going, etc. I don't need to add touch capability to my TV :)
>  
> I will go the YouTube route, thanks for your advice.
> 
>  
> On 25 Jan 2008 16:55:22 -0500, *Blake Haggerty* 
> <Blake.Haggerty at sapphire.com <mailto:Blake.Haggerty at sapphire.com>> wrote:
> 
>     My only experience with touchscreens is  looking to do the same
>     thing and finding out that touchscreens are extremely expensive on
>     anything over 19" (I know not any help to your situation) I have
>     watched a few youtube videos on how to set them up under Linux
>     though. I would search touchscreen and linux on youtube and there
>     are a ton of videos about it.
>      
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>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:*Nathan Hoover nathan at foo-o-rama.com
>     <mailto:nathan at foo-o-rama.com>
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>     *Sent:* Jan 25, 2008 01:23:03 PM
>     *Subject:* [sf-lug] touchscreens
> 
>     Does anyone have direct experience using touchscreens with Linux? If
>     so, what were your experiences?
>      
>     I've been considering adding a kiosk type deal to my home network,
>     where you could see weather, news, eventually maybe do some home
>     automation type stuff. I'm just at the exploratory state, so any
>     input would be desirable.
>      
>     Regards,
>     Nathan
> 
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