When the Activboard is used on Windows does it act like a mouse or does a dedicated application have to be run to use it. It sounds to me like you will need to write your own driver for this. A good place to start is the Elographics touch screen driver as it will use absolute coordinates like I presume the Activboard does. You will need to delve into the serial protocol between the Activboard and the PC. You may have to nag them for them to give it to you. Kevin email: kevin.benstead@xxxxxxxxxx Tel: +44 (0)118 971 5032 -----Original Message----- From: Grant Sewell [mailto:g.sewell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 20 January 2005 23:35 To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Interactive Whiteboard... Hi all. I teach at a local college where we have a fair number of "interactive whiteboards" (touch sensitive, or pen-activated boards onto which the screen is projected). The particular model I am interested in is the "Promethean Activboard". I use a laptop running Debian Sid with XFree 4.3.0.1. I have the Graphics side of things setup very nicely thank-you, but I would like to get the "interactive pen" running as a pointing device so that I can leave the laptop in the corner of the room and not have to revisit it every couple of seconds. The whiteboard connects to the computer via a standard (I presume, RS232) "serial" port (9pin variety). I have tried every combination of driver/protocol that I could imagine for serial mice, and I have tried using both the laptop's own serial port and a USB->serial adaptor, but nothing has worked so far. Has anyone had any success using these whiteboards with X? I have contacted the manufacturer but they didn't seem particularly interested in my request for assistance (now there's a surprise). Thanks. Grant. -- Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
