Is there any version of Linux that is touchscreen accessible? If there is what kind is it?

Doesn't a touch screen generate the same events as a touchpad? I guess any Linux running Xorg is equal, provided the drivers are available. It would help if you specified the type of touch screen you have.

The next step of course could be to search on Google for "touch screen <mytype> Linux compatible".

In addition, Google is used to short one sentence questions, and usually gives 22,345,234,566 answers. We try to do better, but we need more information (=effort) from you.

jlinkels

alright i can give you tons of information as well as a link to the computer. It's a MSI Wind all in one. http://www.electronicexpress.com/product?prod_id=16401 this is the computer, i want to put a type of linux on it that has touch screen capabilities, and before you ask, your finger cannot act as a left and right click, which is why i said touchscreen compatible.

First result in Google showed that the evtouch driver seems to be the most succesful with this device.

Again, if it is supported by one distro, it is likely to be supported by all. Linux is not the kind of OS where you switch a distro and re-install to solve a problem. Generally it is better to familiarize yourself with a distro which policy concerning package management you like and stick with that, solving problems as they appear. Trying multiple distros is some kind of replacing known problems with unkown ones in the next distro.

Altough I despise their policy, Ubuntu seems to be relatively succesful in supporting evtouch out of the box.

jlinkels

i thanks you for your help on this situation and you cleared that up fast. but is there any distro of linux that will run an easycap 2.0? and other microsoft products without the need of products like virtualbox or wine? i know that too me, what i just asked sounds dumb but i had too ask anyways.

Do you mean an Easycap video adapter? If so, Google is your friend. Google for "easycap Linux" and you'll find some user reports. Find out what driver they use, and check if your preferred distro supports it. I have seen Ubuntu appearing more than once so you might try to give that a shot.

If you mean a software package which is called Easycap 2, running in Windows then you can forget about it in Linux as it doesn't seem that a Linux version is available. Nevertheless, Linux does offer video capturing, usually through mencoder. Then again, don't try to figure out the mencoder 6000+ lines man page, bit google for an example. Then read the man page on the propose options and see if they fit.

jlinkels

alright man ill give it a shot

alright all was going good until i saw this,

The syntek USB 2.0 video camera driver for DC-1125 ans STK-1135 is currently being developed
on Linux. This driver can do damages. Use this driver only if you know what you are doing.

and frankly, i have no idea what im doing. is there any program i can run on wine to record with the easycap 2.0?

I can't you help any further with that sorry. In my experience Wine usually doesn't work with the special applications I have. Virtual machines do. But since that MSI comes with Windows, what would be the point to run Linux on the device and install a VM running Windows?

jlinkels

No, as it will not provide the driver. Wine is not a Windows emulator, it's just a bunch of file and interruption filter that allow .exe to "just work" as if they were in Windows.

When developers say something give cancer or may kill your cat, they just want to say that it is not perfect yet and they are responsible for your experience. It will hardly kill your hardware, it may just be incomplete.

As for the touch screen, it's like on Windows, you need the driver. lspci or lsusb command can give you some info about it. Evtouch, synaptic, tstouch, egalax and evdev are the main drivers. Some provide support for many touchscreen, like evtouch and some are proprietary but come with (good) adjustment tools and click emulation while some other have only basic or no tools at all.


By the way, Linux is Linux, the distribution wont make something possible or impossible. They are all the same when it come to the possibilities, the differences are elsewhere.

alright, thanks for all you guys help.