Do the IIYAMA ProLite T2252MTS and Minix Neo X7 work together?

[jacnl2000]

Thinking of buying an IIYAMA ProLite T2252MTS for connecting a 22" touch screen to my Minix Neo X7.

These devices can be tied together rather easily via both a HDMI & USB cable, BUT I do expect this
combination not to be immediately properly working out of their boxes. It's not exactly plug and play Windows,
but the suggested combination looks like a nice alternative to a traditional Windows computer.

Hints about the additional work that needs to be done can be found here:
http://minixforums.com/threads/touchscreen-issues.3268/
http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?1802-Touchscreen&highlight=st2220t

Somebody present here who got these two devices actually work together?

[muratremix]

You'll buy an extremely expensive monitor for android mini pc?

I don't think minix x7 supports 36 bit deep color via HDMI or anything.

For the price of X7, you could bought a celeron 1037u dual core mini pc (without ram or disk).

Touch screen requires driver on X7 side, thats why it is not plug and play.

[jacnl2000]

You'll buy an extremely expensive monitor for android mini pc?

First, thank you for mentioning the celeron 1037u dual core mini pc ( elsewhere on the internet explicitly named X-26 ).

Following thread dated October 2013 compares both the X7, X-26, and some other available contemporary devices:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=176109

Look and feel, and price of the X7 and X-26 do not differ much, less than suggested by a maybe too quick but probably not so lucky choice of words in previous post ( same price range, same speed of processors, and thus same market segment ).

X7 has been explicitly specified as a device being capable of understanding the bidirectional part of HDMI specification

version 1.4. However this bidirectional HDMI addon relates to ethernet usage, so not to touch screen panels.

Additional andriod touch screen panel related information can be found here:

http://source.android.com/devices/tech/input/input-device-configuration-files.html

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.txt

http://lii-enac.fr/en/architecture/linux-input/multitouch-devices.html

As an aside, if I would own a celeron 1037u dual core mini pc myself then I would be most likely trying to run not only Linux and

Windows, but also tryout the latest free version of Android-x86 currently available to x86 platforms ( see e.g.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android-x86 and http://www.android-x86.org/ ).

Following question "Do the IIYAMA ProLite T2252MTS and Minix Neo X7 work together?" has not been answered yet.

Edited March 5, 2014 by jacnl2000

[muratremix]

You ask if it will work, I say touch screen driver has to be installed first. Otherwise it should work as an HDMI display.

If you want touch panel to work, you may have to compile driver yourself (not easy) or find a precompiled module and install to X7.

However, if you opt in to celeron 1037 device, I'm pretty sure it would be very easy to install touch screen driver.

[astral]

I run my Minix with a 40" Samsung, and lust after a bigger screen.......

but I would not want to sit close enough to touch it.

[jacnl2000]

Present policy of Minix ( dated the 6th of March 2014 ): "we have driverless, plug-and-play solution ready for our industrial customers."

Another fact is a new IIYAMA T2253MTS touch screen monitor does NOT work together straight out of the box with the X7, so this monitor has been returned immediately to the shop.

My budget is too low to buy me a seat at the development table of Minix (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Edited March 6, 2014 by jacnl2000