I used the Ubuntu live CD to try out Hardy Heron. Everything worked great except for the touch screen. It is a tablet device and so it gives absolute cursor information, not relative.

There are kernel packages that have absolute mouse support, but I didn't try them.

I tried ubuntu too but the sound and touch screen function is not working, otherwise it is cool...

yup, and this touch screen is supposedly a multi-touch... (although no drivers for vista nor linux currently) it should work amazingly if HP work out some linux multitouch driver or plugins...

Linux is ready for multitouch
Xorg have (from 1 year ? more ?) it. Recently, the MPX extension merge into Xorg mainline.

References :
http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/MPX
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-May/035384.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olWjnfBoY8E&feature=related
example of a window manager for multitouch : http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~whot/mpwm/

I think Mandriva could be an excellent choice for this new large-public type of computer.

regards

Hey!
I have a tx2z Hp Touchsmart tx2 Multitouch with PCLINUXOS 2009.2 (find LiveCD);
i suggest it (fun of linux)
if you try it you can know how is great Compiz-Fusion (4example)

Anyway ;)
works good!

except (for now):

>touch - multitouch - possible 1b96:0001 on lsusb
>jacks audio and audio's volume is too much low and sometime crashes - resolved as above described!
>InfraRed Control
>Volume and other acpi controls and features

i've too much things to Do.. miss time

Please if you can stress - for touch - Ntrig site with invocations for drivers for our PCs.

We need to have possibility to choose which system use, this not means not windows, but linux doesnt need a license.
I thanks HP because of this great smartTablet pc .. i wait the tough version
Bye

It s possible to offer better user experience with KDE desktop.

(this is not a flamewar, i use GNOME on laptop and LXde on Netbook and Kde on workstation : it is only because Kde is [today] better with touchscreen).

So, distro like SuSe or Mandriva Linux are better than any other for kde perfect integration.

Addtionnally, we could view the result of multitouch kernel capabilities integration (in Ecole Nationale d' Aviation Civile, at Toulouse, Fr) here :
-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTeUbx_nnM4
http://www.lii-enac.fr/en/projects/shareit/linux.html

And the recent lib clutter permit to have (very) easy development around OpenGL (& ES), view this video :
-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYGp6iBmCyM
http://www.clutter-project.org/

Moovida is an excellent "media center" [the best i think] with a excellent touchscreen integration (with it s own virtual keyboard inside for example). Moovida is available in rpm for Mandriva Linux Cooker (dev version) if anyone want to test it.. and adopt it. Moovida is the new 'name' of Elisa. I think it s possible to have Moovida as a suffisant Desktop, with some add plugins as "launch Office with virtual keyboard" or "mails + jabber/Google Talk + Google Voice" and a plugin for web browser.

At the end, Linux is really the best choice for this type of computer : cpu and memory footprint, capabilities...

I hope H.P provide quickly the 25'' version of touchSmart (the 9300) with any Linux Distribution. (Mandriva or SuSe with Kde, but Ubuntu or Fedora with Gnome too, never mind, even it s possible kde is a best choice for touchscreen experience)

Best regards.

Hello, I have Touchsmart IQ512ES and I have sound with answer that wrote Eddy but the problem is with microphone that i can't record any sound. Somebody can i help me?

lspci:

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 04)

cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 :

Codec: Analog Devices AD1984B

And all volume of alsamixer is high.

Thanks and sorry my english is very poor.

While I'm not a "Ditto-head", ditto to that. HP should read this because I'm running Ubuntu, and all the bloat-ware they installed was useless on me. If they had a Linux distribution they could offer me AVG for Linux, CrossOver Office, special offers for Pando, ... & maybe, just maybe, some of my customers would bite. The big-boys should stop being afraid of Bill Gates. I had to go to Toys-R-Us to get my son a Linux Netbook because all the big boxes around were too afraid to sell them. The clerks in those places, to a one, all told me that many customers buy an XP-Netbook and put on a Netbook-Linux when they get home. Of course, MS can show market share and we pay for a license we never use... (like this computer I'm writing on: a TX2-1020US) The downside is that many end users don't know the first thing about setting up a computer (even to the point of installing Mozilla apps to fix Outlook/IE) in Windows. They do not understand that even though they bought a new computer, Vista (even 64bit) is the reason its still so slow.

wow i feel like such a noob. double post. sorry