Is there a single linux live distro with touchscreen support?

Xeratul · 06-25-2016, 04:37 AM

Hello,

Is there a single linux live distro with touchscreen support?

I have tried fedora, mepis live, ubuntu live (last one), debian live,... and visibly not a single linux live has a touchscreen support.

Time to think about tablets, there is really, nothing complicated to make a live distro with touchscreen support.

the linux community is likely a bit lazy, not making such live distro, isn't it?
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/v...p?f=44&t=96018

Best regards

Emerson · 06-25-2016, 05:33 AM

If you look at Linux kernel plenty of touchscreen controllers are supported. What controller you have that is not working?

Xeratul · 06-25-2016, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Emerson

If you look at Linux kernel plenty of touchscreen controllers are supported. What controller you have that is not working?

i dont believe you, have you got even a single successfull try with a live distro?

Emerson · 06-25-2016, 06:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Xeratul

i dont believe you, have you got even a single successfull try with a live distro?

You are saying I'm a liar? BTW, I work in gambling industry. Slot machines run Linux, they have touchscreens. Have had for at least 15 years ... this is how far back goes Linux touchscreen support.

syg00 · 06-25-2016, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Xeratul

I have tried fedora, mepis live, ubuntu live (last one), debian live,... and visibly not a single linux live has a touchscreen support.

You seem to complain a lot - what have you offered to solve what you apparently see as shortcomings in the open source community ?.

hendrickxm · 06-25-2016, 08:04 AM

Odd, I have tried Fedora 23/24, the latest Salix and Slackel livecd's (based on slackware 14.2/current) and my touchscreen works out of the box.

Timothy Miller · 06-25-2016, 10:12 AM

My touchscreen worked out of the box with Fedora and Debian. Probably others except I never tried.

jamison20000e · 06-25-2016, 10:24 AM

Unless you add a save presence of some sort any settings and firmware you can add will be lost on reboot...

Oh and Android*. (Add:) not sure if you can run that live yet tho?

replica9000 · 06-27-2016, 06:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xeratul

Hello,

Is there a single linux live distro with touchscreen support?

I have tried fedora, mepis live, ubuntu live (last one), debian live,... and visibly not a single linux live has a touchscreen support.

Time to think about tablets, there is really, nothing complicated to make a live distro with touchscreen support.

the linux community is likely a bit lazy, not making such live distro, isn't it?
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/v...p?f=44&t=96018

Best regards

I have two laptops with touchscreen, and have tried Ubuntu with Unity and Mint KDE Live CDs and it worked fine.

jefro · 06-27-2016, 08:05 PM

The last time I really played with touchscreen, the digitizer was serial connected to top of CRT. It used to work on linux.

mrrhq · 06-29-2016, 04:26 PM

Chances are, if you're not getting touchscreen/tablet support, it might be because it's an older USB-Serial device, do you have a /dev/ttyS0 device? If so, you might need to use the inputattach utility.

Generally Linux Wacom driver support should work if it's a Wacom-compatible device. xsetwacom --list devices should show it

jefro · 06-29-2016, 09:53 PM

I believe the OP was talking about tablets. The OP didn't say what device was used or what errors so we don't really know what is the issue.