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#468703 - 09/18/06 12:31 PM Touch Screen Set up for iBook , any ideas.. [Re: neil]
bmartinek Registered: 09/18/06 Posts: 16 Loc: Washington, DC	So I bought a clunker G3 iBook and wanted to make it a touch screen unit. I called the people at Troll Touch Screens and go a very unsatisfactory we will not sell you the parts, unless we do it here at the factory. Thumbs down for them. especially at $649 So I searched elswhere and saw a couple items, but particularly this on one ebay that looked attractive: http://cgi.ebay.com/Touchscreen-Touch-Sc...1QQcmdZViewItem But I am curious where I could find a driver for it or somehow make OS X belive its the track pad. Any ideas? _________________________ iBook G3 OS X 10.4.8 / Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.0 Mac Mini Intel Core Solo 1.5 GHz OS X 10.4.8 / Vista RC1 (testing) Coming Soon: Mac Mini G4 1.42 OS X Server 10.4.8
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#468704 - 09/18/06 01:54 PM Re: Touch Screen Set up for iBook , any ideas.. [Re: neil]
Kisin Registered: 11/15/07 Posts: 151	the ibook g3 trackpad uses a adb bus i think, the g4 uses a usb bus, so it would probably be easy to mod the software of the g4 to get it to recognize the touchscreen as the track pad; i have NO IDEA on how to do this, so if you pull it of PLEASE post a modguide! good luck!
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#468705 - 09/18/06 02:08 PM Re: Touch Screen Set up for iBook , any ideas.. [Re: neil]
manhackman Registered: 04/26/06 Posts: 173	check this one out... alot more affordable http://www.touchscreens.com/mt1214pc-usb.html _________________________ >Mac mini PPC / 1.42 Ghz / 1GB RAM / 74.41GB 4200rpm 2.5" / Airport + Bluetooth / 10.4.7 / 20.1" LG widescreen >G4 400 PPC / 20 gig / 768MB RAM / ZIP drive / 10.4.7 /17" apple SD / Back up system >Powerbook Titanium 1Ghz / 40GB / 512MB RAM / mashed up and waiting for a good mod! >Macintosh SE/30
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#468706 - 09/18/06 03:01 PM Re: Touch Screen Set up for iBook , any ideas.. [Re: neil]
bmartinek Registered: 09/18/06 Posts: 16 Loc: Washington, DC	Actually good news on that from I found out that thier supplier has much cooler options: http://www.magictouch.com/KTT-120LAM.html So thats a start, thought I will be curious to see if OS X will let it runInk or Inkwell as it is. Thanks for the helps guys! I assume I will be posting more questions. _________________________ iBook G3 OS X 10.4.8 / Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.0 Mac Mini Intel Core Solo 1.5 GHz OS X 10.4.8 / Vista RC1 (testing) Coming Soon: Mac Mini G4 1.42 OS X Server 10.4.8
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