[geeks] touch screens

[Dave McGuire]

  Isn't there a digitizing tablet driver for X somewhere?  I thought I
heard something about that somewhere, perhaps in the context of
Linux...anyway it should be substantially the same, save for
the specifics of the communications protocols.

    -Dave

On December 11, Ken Hansen wrote:
> The best you could do would be a monitor where the touch screen outputs a
> steady stream of X and Y coordinates, then hack a driver to use in place of
> the mouse and you are all set!
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Ken
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wolfgang Engelien" <wolfgang at hanazono.med.cornell.edu>
> To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 11:55 AM
> Subject: [geeks] touch screens
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was just thinking about how to use a touch screen
> > on a SUN. I wonder if there are any touch screens,
> > having a "mouse-equivalent" signal for the touch-part
> > of the touch-screen so that you could attach it to
> > the sun through some KVM switch or some creativ
> > soldering ...
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Wolfgang
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-- 
Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL