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‎Linux support

Wyrfel at 23:38, 8 February 2006

2006-02-08T23:38:08Z

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The ThinkPad {{360P}}, {{360PE}} and {{750P}} models feature a Tablet PC like design that enables the display to be folded down face up onto of the keyboard. The display furthermore features a TouchScreen so that the whole unit can be used as a pen tablet.

Little to nothing is known about the technology behind those TouchScreens. But there seems to be [http://www.pd.com/gbpen/messages/1119.html indication] that these TouchScreens might have emerged from a cooperation with a company called GRiD. GRiD manufactured tablet morphable notebooks at about the same time the {{360P}}, {{360PE}} and {{750P}} were produced. In fact, the folding mechanism on those [http://www.pd.com/GRiD.html GRiDPads] was the same as on the three ThinkPad models in question.

==Linux support==
Nothing is known so far about Linux support for these TouchScreens.

You can, however, find evidence in the net that poeple did make GRiDPad TouchScreens work under Linux. So - IF this is really the same technology - you might have luck trying.

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	You can, however, find evidence in the net that poeple did make GRiDPad TouchScreens work under Linux. So - IF this is really the same technology - you might have luck trying.		You can, however, find evidence in the net that poeple did make GRiDPad TouchScreens work under Linux. So - IF this is really the same technology - you might have luck trying.
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		+	For the 360PE I found a link to a Linux Driver:
		+	http://home.att.net/~ssolon/tp360pe/index.html
		+	http://hwr.nici.kun.nl/pen-computing/bin/

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Wyrfel at 23:38, 8 February 2006