[OpenIndiana-discuss] Touchscreen support

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

> Apologies in advance if this is OT, if so, could you point me in the
> right direction.

Not offtopic at all IMHO.

> I am building a ZFS server and looking for advice on how to implement
> a touchscreen in the front of it's case.
> 
> The screen would show system info, pools and utilization (CPU / Disk /
> RAM / Network) info.
> 
> Basically when you click on a pool you get a physical disk layout on
> the screen with drop-downs for:
> 
> -number of disks
> -rows
> -disks per row
> -select slice number beside each disk
> 
> And then you save the above info, your layout appears automatically
> for you.
> 
> Disks would change colour based on their status, that kind of thing.
> 
> You touch a disk and it brings up a detail page.

Sounds good to me.

> Aside from the above software development, How should I approach the
> touchscreen function:
> 
> 1/ Touchscreen plugged directly into the Solaris server via USB and
> VGA
> 2/ Something like a beagleboard with touchscreen linked via serial or
> IP
> 3/ An iPad or Android tablet linked via wifi
> 
> (1) would require a Solaris HID driver for the touchscreen.

IMHO, the best would be (1), since it'll be better integrated and less work. There has been som work done with drivers, but this page hasn't been updated in 18 months or so: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+device_drivers/touchscreen

> Basically it would be cool to be able to:
> 
> -touch the screen
> -see there was a problem
> -identify the physical position of the problem disk
> -take it offline...
> 
> I would love your input on both the touchscreen and the software dev.

Btw, do you plan to develop this in the open? If so, I could check if we have some touchscreen hardware around at work, perhaps we could even buy some for this project - it looks interesting indeed :)

Vennlige hilsener / Best regards

roy
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