I'm no hacker either. It's just that we use touchscreens on a number of our products so I've played with various drivers with varying degrees of success. A google search on "Interactive Whiteboards"+Linux revealed that several other White board manufacturers support Linux. http://www.smarttech.com/company/mediacenter/press/releases/linux.asp is an example. Try beating Promethean over the head with this fact. With the ever increasing use on Linux in schools and universities it I would think that they will be getting more and more requests for this. If they think they are going to loose sales by not supporting Linux it might spur them into action. Kevin email: kevin.benstead@xxxxxxxxxx Tel: +44 (0)118 971 5032 -----Original Message----- From: Grant Sewell [mailto:g.sewell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 21 January 2005 08:53 To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Interactive Whiteboard... On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:36:28 -0000 Benstead, Kevin wrote: > 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. Nail on the head with the former. It acts as a pointing device... it would potentially be easier if it required their application, but unfortunately it doesn't. > 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. I was hoping you wouldn't say that. I'm no hacker by anyone's standards. But, I'll go get the X sources and have a peek, see what I can make of it. > 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. Okey dokey. I'm not expecting miracles on this. Although, it would seem that the company are more proud of their software that let's you "annotate over the top" of a displayed screen, so perhaps they won't be guarding their serial protocols with high enthusiasm. We'll see. Thanks. Grant. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
