Thanks, David. I'll give it a try. Also, the more I've been looking into OpenBravo, the more I'm bothered by what seems to be a lack of an employee time card feature. It's also slow to load, and it's written in Java. Maybe it'll be ready for prime time in a year or two.
It looks like my brother is going to go with the XP option and some commercial software. On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 9:54 AM, David Dooling <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 02:44:37PM -0500, Mike Bigalke wrote: > > Question 1: Has anyone tried to install a touch screen in Ubuntu or any > > other flavor of linux for that matter? > > We have a bunch running on Debian GNU/Linux. > > > I have an Elo Accutouch 2210, card reader, bar code scanner, cash drawer, > > and customer display. > > Ours have barcode scanners, some serial, some USB. > > > One minor problem... the touch screen is on com1 and not on usb. The > > pre-compiled drivers I have found for Ubuntu are USB in nature and > > restricted to the 2.4-2.6 kernel series. > > You should not need any kernel drivers to enable touch screen input > through the serial port. You just need the elographics driver for > X.org (which should be part of the core distribution). > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Touchscreen" > Driver "elographics" > Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS1" > Option "MinX" "412" > Option "MaxX" "3689" > Option "MinY" "551" > Option "MaxY" "3535" > Option "UntouchDelay" "10" > Option "ReportDelay" "10" > Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" > EndSection > > Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. > > -- > David Dooling > http://www.politigenomics.com/ > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
