PlayStation Touch Screen for Your Linux Box

hebertrich writes to tell us that IBM DeveloperWorks has an interesting article about how to modify a PlayStation LCD for use as a touch screen panel for your Linux box. From the article: "Historically, the lack of friendly interfaces has been an obstacle to making Linux® a commercially viable product for end users, but with available GUIs, that's yesterday's news. What's the next step in creating an easy-to-use Linux-based product for consumers? Imagine adding a user-oriented LCD touchscreen. A touchscreen facade can make back-end Linux applications very usable in such devices as custom digital media centers (either in the home or in automobiles), DVRs and PVRs, and even control interfaces for household robots."

Hmmm...

[setirw]

I wonder if touchscreens such as this could function on ADC (Apple Display Connection), which integrates both DVI-I and USB into one plug... That way, a separate serial/USB cable for transmitting HID data wouldn't be necessary.

Interesting to see the responses here

[FoamingToad]

given the amount of /.ers who were stating quite vehemently their intent to never buy any Sony products ever a couple of weeks back [slashdot.org] [Slashdot, passim].

A bit expensive but ...

[Ricochet]

I've been working with the Nokia 770 (http://www.nokiausa.com/770 [nokiausa.com]) and it's a nice small wireless (802.11b) ARM PC running Linux. It has a 800x400 touch screen that I'm comfortable with. It has a streaming music app, email, a browser (Opera) and a couple of other apps on it as well as storage for adding more. I plan on using it for my HA interface (running http://www.misterhouse.com/ [misterhouse.com]) so the browser is important. So far it works rather well and beats bringing a book into the bathroom for reading. :-) This will be used to replace my my 3COM Audrey, which is hardwired. If they can get the price down I think this device has a chance.

Simultaneous xservers on linux?

[evilad]

I recently tried and failed to add a touchscreen to my media server. The stumbling block was finding a way to have a simultaneous xservers (Ubuntu Breezy x.org 6.8) running on different video cards. No matter what I do, only one will be active at a time (one per virtual console), and I'm forced to switch between them with the Alt-Fkeys.

A little searching found the ancient Backstreet Ruby project, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do it with a modern kernel and xserver.

Anyone managed to accomplish this recently?

Why not spare yourself the agony

[Anonymous Coward]

...and throw your money on these linux guys http://damnsmalllinux.org/store/TFT_LCD [damnsmalllinux.org]? After you're done, THEN you decide whether the car or the house gets the lil box...