Tell me more ×
Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for users and developers of hardware and software for Raspberry Pi. It's 100% free, no registration required.
up vote 4 down vote favorite
1

I'm looking at getting this 659GL-70NP/C/T touchscreen for my Raspberry Pi but I'm not sure if the touch surface will work with the Raspberry Pi Android OS. Will it?

Thanks!

share|improve this question
Maybe you should ask the manufacturer, since the "specifications" don't mention the interface it uses – gnibbler Sep 6 '12 at 4:54
CarComputer.co.uk says it uses USB ( carcomputer.co.uk/index.php?/monitors/hdmi-monitors/… ) but I'm not sure whether it has RasPi drivers. – supr_g33k_7120 Sep 6 '12 at 5:04
So it goes. If Google doesn't help, your options might be to take the risk or find someplace you can test it yourself. Just plug it in and see what the USB IDs are and if you can see the chip used in the TS. Even Windows device damager should be able to show you these. At least the IDs. So you won't need an actual PI or anything more capable, just a running demo machine. – XTL Sep 6 '12 at 6:05

2 Answers

up vote 0 down vote

I don't know if you can get this screen to work with the RPi, but on an older thread on Raspberry Pi site (2012AUG02), I found this message from Limor Fried on a suggestion to port Adafruit Arduino code to use in RPi touch screens. [0] I assume any code they use will using the Adafruit RPi distro. [1]

hang tight folks, we are working a lot of products for the pi, including a touchscreen!

-ladyada

You can read the post here. [2] I'm pretty sure this was also repeated on a RPi Friday video somewhere. I'll add a link when I find it.

Reference

[0] adafruit, "Touch-Screen-Library: Arduino library for 4-wire resistive touchscreens"

github.com/adafruit/Touch-Screen-Library

[1] adafruit, "tweaked distribution for teaching electronics using the Raspberry PI"

http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-raspberry-pi-educational-linux-distro

[2] adafruit reply to jfornango "Tue Sep 18, 2012 4:50 pm"

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=8983&start=25

share|improve this answer
Looks like an old thread, but if you are interested in this, there are a few dozen touchscreen drivers in the mainline linux kernel under Device Drivers -> Input Device Support -> Touchscreens; I think you also need a userspace driver for X, eg wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchscreen#Available_X11_drivers There's only one screen mentioned in the RPi wiki: elinux.org/RPi_VerifiedPeripherals#Touch_Screen , too bad people haven't added to that... – goldilocks Jan 29 at 13:31
thx goldilock. it is an old thread but it'll become important the first real demo's start rolling out. Didnt think to look at the elinux RPi peripheral list. – bootload Jan 30 at 2:40
up vote -1 down vote

Not sure if the Raspberry Pi has networking support on the DVI port.

The HDMI 1.4 is supposed to support Ethernet on Pin 14 HEC Data-

(Optional, HDMI 1.4+ with Ethernet)

Not that that device has HDMI. Or even DSI.

I would pass on that and wait for the DSI activation. PSP I think uses DSI touch screens.

share|improve this answer

Your Answer

 
discard

By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.