Good luck with that. MS POS 1.0 has a screwy data structure, but is functional. Hopefully it's gotten better since the version I have. Haven't tried Quickbooks POS. Some day when I get around to getting my old data out of btrieve 5.10a (the machines running general store), I might upgrade our store to something more recent.
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Mike Bigalke <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
