Re: Touch screen advice needed

["wywywywywywywywywywy" <wywywywy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Surprisingly I got 800x480 working on my EPIA M10000 with a hacked BIOS!

Is there another touchscreen interface app that is like xLobby (but free)?

I am now so close to just mod some car PC centric apps (namely
RoadRunner) and use it for HA.

Thanks,
Wayne


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "rb_ziggy" <rb.lists@...> wrote:
>
> Powerstrip - yes been there, got the scars! However, the PC/server I
> use for HA has the regular on-board Intel (I think) graphics chip set
> and Powerstrip will not work with that.  Of course the obvious answer
> is to get a basic new ATI/NVIDEA video card and pop it in.  That's
> easy enough but as I ended up building and developing all my xLobby
> screens around a 1280x768 layout it's a major pain to redo these.
>
> Perhaps when I'm forced off of xLobby (as its a dodo product from the
> sustainable viewpoint) I'll revisit this.  In the meantime the native
> 800x480 screen does an amazing job at rendering the much bigger
> layout.  It's perfectly ok to use the native windows desktop (bit
> small on text) behind the xLobby screen when necessary, even in
> touchscreen mode!
>
> However, for reconfiguration and maintenance I usually access that PC
> via VNC - much easier to use a 1280x768 window on a 1920x1200 24"
> screen;-)
>
> (Real shame about xLobby though as it was sooo close to being great.
> It just needed a slightly better HA interface - I use xAP with it -
> and it would have been perfect.)
>
> Richard
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Tim" <timsyahoo@> wrote:
> >
> > Richard,
> >
> > Have you tried PowerStrip?
> > http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm
> > It gives you more control over your graphics card and allows you
to
> create
> > custom resolutions (amongst other things). Maybe you could get it
to
> work
> > for your screen.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Tim.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: rb_ziggy
> > >
> > > Only issue I have had is getting the
> > > pc to drive it at it's native 800x480 res.  In the endup
driving
at a
> > > higher widescreen resolution that the pc video card does
support and
> > > it works very well.
> >
>