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On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 17:18:51 +0000 Mark Evans <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Phil Gibbons wrote: > > > > I have seen on countless occasions Open Source lose out because there > > has been one application that won't run. Currently the hot potato in > > schools are interactive white boards. These are specialist items and > > provide a connection to the desktop/laptop. They also provide a suite > > Hardware wise an interactive white board is a large graphics tablet, > some of them will even show up under /dev/input/mice with a bog standard > 2.6 kernel. I would be very interested to read more about this... we have Promethean ACTIVboards with "serial" interfaces at College, and I have struggled before now to get them to work nicely. I even had an email from Promethean support techs suggesting that I hook the board up to a Windows machine and use VNC to connect to the Linux/Unix box. Pah! --Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html