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Hi,
With any of the Touchsmart models it comes standard with Windows Vista. In your case the IQ506t has the Windows Vista 64-bit Operating system. The drivers for the touchscreen come pre-installed with the OS as well as the programs that HP provides you with the puchase of the computer. The Touchsmart software comes pre-installed as well. If you were to put Ubuntu on the touchsmart the touch function would not work and of course you would lose all the pre-installed programs such as the touchsmart software. You will not be able to locate the drivers for the touchscreen and get to function with Ubuntu because HP does not support any other operating system other then the one that comes pre-installed. You can however try adding Ubuntu and have a dual boot option. Although when you are in the Ubuntu OS the touchscreen probably will not work.
My advise to you is that if you do decide to purchase the Touchsmart at some point and you are experimenting with it, you are going to want to create a set of recovery disc. The Touchsmart does not come with the recovery disc's, you are expected to create them on your own.
Hope this answers some of your questions.
Hello,
I have an IQ506t in my cart at hp.com, but I'm wondering if I can put Ubuntu on this. I've wanted to put Ubuntu on the next computer I purchase, and the Touchsmart doesn't seem like the one to try this on, but I've fallen in love with it. But I really don't want to have to put up with Vista in my own home.
So has anyone ever done this? Would the touchscreen work? Could I find information on drivers somewhere to get it to work w/ ubuntu?
Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.
thanks!
Thank you very much- that helps. If I try it, I'll definitely work on recovery disks first.
One more question, though: I'm curious about how the touchsmart software is available to developers. Does that only work for applications, or could some intrepid developer/s use that to build an ubuntu or other operating system for the Touchsmart?
Thanks again.
The TouchSmart software is mainly based on two things: WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation, a Microsoft .NET-based technology) and the Windows Vista Desktop Window Manager APIs. So unless those things are made available on Ubuntu, there's little chance the HP TouchSmart UI can be ported to Ubuntu. Not sure I need to clarify this, but the HP TouchSmart software is not an operating system, just a full-screen program.
That said, anyone can start making their own program for Ubuntu that mimics the HP TouchSmart software.
I have a TouchSmart iQ518a and am running ubuntu 8.10 on it now.
No problem with video drivers nvidia drivers took straight away.
I hadn't tried the wireless until reading this but there is no listing for a wireless interface in ifconfig.
I am currently trying to get the sound working which is how i came across this website as it doesn't work out of the box.
The touch screen i got working by:
Edit:
Makes sense i can't post xml or attach files, see https://wiki.cse.unsw.edu.au/~jlennox/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/powmri/nextwindow for touch screen support
It needs some work, for example the touch and drag takes too long but that should be just configuring
I see no reason that this shouldn't work for all TouchSmarts
Edit:
Since this time i have gotten sound and wireless to work as well. I'm not really worried about getting the webcam or bluetooth going at this point, but these will get the basics working:
https://wiki.cse.unsw.edu.au/~jlennox/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/powmri/touchsmart
Its a beautiful system, i just wish HP would support linux.
Jamie
Thanks, Jamie.
That helps a lot.
How long did that process take?
How is it working now?
I also wish HP would support linux. In fact, why don't they?
It took a little trial and error but not too long, day or so, its a work computer and they wanted the touchscreen going for testing touch apps so isn't really a problem to fiddle with it.
It was a little flaky it would work fine for ages and then just not work on one reboot but either a hal restart or just making sure the correct hal description had been picked up was usually enough to fix it.
Since then i have done a lot of stuff with unsupported hardware (stuff we built) and have effectively killed my hal / udev config which i haven't fixed and so this has stopped the touchscreen. However i'm sure this was my own fault.
Glad to see that it helped someone.
Jamie
For others, as far as i know there is no equivalent of the touch software HP ships for ubuntu. I haven't really done any looking but in my opinion at least its not really necessary.
The only thing that i haven't tested from the box is the webcam. Sound, keyboard, touch, bluetooth all work fine.
If anyone tries this please let us know.
Jamie
Thought i'd give everyone an update.
I installed jaunty and there is no real better support than hard was given. However everything can be made to work including touch, sound, webcam. So there is no reason to avoid a touchsmart with ubuntu.
https://wiki.cse.unsw.edu.au/~jlennox/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/powmri/touchsmart2
Jamie
Just got a Touchsmart IQ528a and installed Mint7,32bit, (based on latest Ubuntu release) as a dual boot, all went OK apart from not being able to get Sound to work :(
Only have basic PC skills and help from Forums was unable to get it to work
Any suggestions?
Thanks
The HP TouchSmart currently doesn't have a working driver for it's on-board chipset. To solve the problem on my configuration, I disabled the on-boad audio and purchased a USB Audio Headset. Although I'm sure that ordinary external USB speakers will also do the trick, My roommies don't like external speakers playing my music or games anyway. ;)
In order to disable the on-board audio, you have to enter the System Setup Utility by pressing F10 as the computer is first booting while displaying the HP Touchsmart logo.
If you find a better way or a third-party driver that will allow the use of their internal audio chipset, then write me back with your method.
Thanks for posting this, I thought I was the only one.
Jarhead said: I have been running Win7 and Ubuntu 9.10 for about two weeks, and both run well, no problem with sound or the touch screen, although, I must admit, the only thing I can do on Ubuntu is move folders around. I am running the MS touch pack on win7, and the system runs 100%, with no failures of any sort. I am only playing around with Ubuntu for S and G, and only alloted 60 GB for it. Ray running an IQ 804 with Win7.
Ah, maybe that's the trick... I'm using Linux Mint, perhaps if I get the latest Ubuntu then it will solve my issue. I do have a different TouchSmart Model than yours but I don't think the audio system is that different. I've read the HP specifications for a couple models already. I haven't seen the one for the IQ 804 though.
By the way, Windows 7 is actually a really good product. MS has done very well with it, perhaps learning from the mistakes in Vista's early release period.
Well, nor mint either ubuntu worked well on my note, i got the pen to move but not the finger, every time i touch my finger on screen the poiter moves to the upside-left of the screen.
GeekTieGuy said:
The TouchSmart software is mainly based on two things: WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation, a Microsoft .NET-based technology) and the Windows Vista Desktop Window Manager APIs. So unless those things are made available on Ubuntu, there's little chance the HP TouchSmart UI can be ported to Ubuntu. Not sure I need to clarify this, but the HP TouchSmart software is not an operating system, just a full-screen program.
That said, anyone can start making their own program for Ubuntu that mimics the HP TouchSmart software.
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Just throwing this out there; :-)
If one wanted to use the exclusive HP software, one could use wine for the MS foundation classes and mono for .net.
That would only work if wine also implements the Desktop Window Manager APIs and if mono is 100% compatible with WPF 3.5 SP1.
I'd be curious to hear if anyone can make it work.
Of course you can get it 100% working if you try hard enough. ;)
First: try ndiswrapper to run windows drivers (for the touch screen) on linux.
Then: try Wine to run the HP applications if you want them.
Just my thoughts :)
Don't let anyone fool you by saying it doesn't work on linux since the computer is made for windows.
there is a live android cd which can be downloaded...
not sure myself how it run on the touchsmart
i tried the android system using virtual-box and worked fine,
if i booted straight to the system,
then it took 2 attempts before the main screen came up,
mouse wasn't working and touchscreen sort of worked,
But from what i read,
you'll need to build up the package yourself if you want a fully working system....
worth a go trying it out
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