Jolicloud’s got the touch!

June 15th, 2010 at 2:09 pm, by Jolicloud Team

The next version of Jolicloud, Jolicloud 1.0 will support some touchscreen displays out of the box.

Watch our short demo below showing the new HTML5 interface on a touchscreen enabled Samsung NB30:

Here is a list of supported touchscreen technologies:

ADS7846/TSC2046 and ADS7843 based touchscreens
AD7877 based touchscreens
AD7879 based touchscreens: AD7879-1 I2C Interface
AD7879 based touchscreens: AD7879 SPI Interface
Compaq iPAQ H3600 (Bitsy) touchscreen
SharpSL (Corgi and Spitz series) touchscreen driver
Touchscreen support for Dialog Semiconductor DA9034
EETI touchscreen panel support
Fujitsu serial touchscreen
Gunze AHL-51S touchscreen
Elo serial touchscreens
Wacom W8001 penabled serial touchscreen
MELFAS MCS-5000 touchscreen
MicroTouch serial touchscreens
iNexio serial touchscreens
ICS MicroClock MK712 touchscreen
HP Jornada 6xx touchscreen
HP Jornada 7xx touchscreen
HTC Shift X9500 touchscreen
Penmount serial touchscreen
Renesas MIGO-R touchscreen
Touchright serial touchscreen
Touchwin serial touchscreen
Atmel Touchscreen Interface
Philips UCB1400 touchscreen
Support for WM97xx AC97 touchscreen controllers
WM9705 Touchscreen interface support
WM9712 Touchscreen interface support
WM9713 Touchscreen interface support
WM97xx Atmel accelerated touch
WM97xx Mainstone/Palm accelerated touch
Zylonite accelerated touch
USB Touchscreen Driver
- eGalax Touchkit USB (also includes eTurboTouch CT-410/510/700)
- PanJit TouchSet USB
- 3M MicroTouch USB (EX II series)
- ITM
- Some other eTurboTouch
- Gunze AHL61
- DMC TSC-10/25
- IRTOUCHSYSTEMS/UNITOP
- IdealTEK URTC1000
- GoTop Super_Q2/GogoPen/PenPower tablets
- JASTEC USB Touch Controller/DigiTech DTR-02U
Sahara TouchIT-213 touchscreen
TSC2007 based touchscreens
W90P910 touchscreen driver
Motorola PCAP touchscreen

Have you seen our preview of the next version of Jolicloud in action? Check out the first video we made of the new Jolicloud HTML5 launcher.

More details coming very soon.

Enjoy!

105 Responses to “Jolicloud’s got the touch!”

Acr0nym | June 15, 2010 at 3:36 pm

This is greatnews, glad to see another update.. was getting a bit too quiet over here :)

I’m really looking forward to the HTML5 launcher. Hopefully we as users will be able to fiddle around with it as well with our own custom made apps/plugins :)

Bailey Bootthanoo | June 16, 2010 at 5:01 am

If you make your own web apps if you use google chrome. Email me if you want the instructions. bootthanoo@gmail.com

Raymond hatfield | June 15, 2010 at 4:53 pm

I would kill for jollicloud on the iPad.

MKA | June 23, 2010 at 4:16 pm

interesting…i thought of this too ;-)

Drew | June 16, 2010 at 12:40 am

That is neat. When are we going to get the html5 interface?

Zak Kaufman | June 20, 2010 at 7:33 pm

No ETA yet, but soon.

Rizzly | June 16, 2010 at 1:14 am

It would be awesome if you could include support for the acer 1825 cando panel.

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/94542/

Cedric | June 16, 2010 at 4:08 pm

Thanks. We’ll investigate!

antonio | June 18, 2010 at 11:05 pm

please please … it would be great to enjoy jolicloud touch on acer 1825 !!!

Michael | July 20, 2010 at 6:07 pm

Is there support for the ASUS T91? I couldn’t find out wich panel it got.

thx

thomas | June 16, 2010 at 2:54 am

Please add support for the shuttle x50 v1 touchscreen….I need an os besides windows that works with this touchscreen ubuntu 10.04 failed me please im begging you guys..begging

Cedric | June 16, 2010 at 4:09 pm

You will be welcome to test it when Jolicloud 1.0 is released :)

tom | June 22, 2010 at 12:01 am

EPIC-”YES I MOST DEFIANTLY WILL”

THIS OS LOOKS EPIC for a nettop and a netbook

Gerard | June 16, 2010 at 11:15 am

Wow that’s great! I still want to see the welcome screen with the netbook of the user.

http://getsatisfaction.com/jolicloud/topics/change_the_welcome_screen_netbook

Gerard | June 16, 2010 at 11:19 am

Hmm also wondering about battery improvements on your labs :D

Zak Kaufman | June 20, 2010 at 7:34 pm

I think this will come later. And a lot of it.

Gerard | June 23, 2010 at 1:27 pm

As always, will be A BIG RELIEF when a staff reply!

And yes it should be since it’s for netbooks!

I <3 Jolicloud :)

Keith E | June 16, 2010 at 1:30 pm

Is this available through an update for the pre-final, or do we have to wait for the final version?

Cedric | June 16, 2010 at 4:26 pm

It’s not released yet.

Julian Sotomil | June 16, 2010 at 6:01 pm

I cant find lenovo natural touch on the list.

Zak Kaufman | June 20, 2010 at 7:35 pm

I’m working on this. It’s still unstable, so it’s not official yet. We’ll see.

Brian | July 19, 2010 at 10:49 pm

any update on the lenovo compatibility?

Bear | July 16, 2010 at 5:02 am

I to am relying on this. I need this to work on my Lenovo s10-3t. You can’t leave me running Windows!

Stofik | August 7, 2010 at 3:39 pm

Same opinion here. Looking forward at touch compatibility with S10-3t…

fogell | June 16, 2010 at 11:08 pm

I had to move away from jolicloud because of this. I am looking forward to reinstalling as soon as it gets released

Ron | June 16, 2010 at 11:21 pm

Wow! I cant wait. Hope it works on the T91MT I can’t wait to get rid of windows!

Tariq | June 17, 2010 at 7:27 am

Yes the mt91 is now supported!

sylwia | June 20, 2010 at 1:22 pm

OMG, best news of the week!!! Cant wait!

Zak Kaufman | June 20, 2010 at 7:36 pm

FYI People have gotten touchscreen on this model working in the PreFinal release, although I’m not exactly sure how.

Stanislav | June 17, 2010 at 3:40 am

I’ll surely try it on my Viliv s5 when it is released. Great work guys!

giejo | June 17, 2010 at 5:37 pm

Wow HTC Shift X9500 touchscreen ?
You sure ?
it really rocks
because for now just an old hack works with an old version of ubuntu

So it will be a really great news

Christian | June 21, 2010 at 9:53 pm

Does “touchscreen support” also mean that it comes with an on screen keyboard and full control without the need of an external keyboard?

Zak Kaufman | June 21, 2010 at 10:31 pm

This is currently being discussed.

Maxartefact | July 16, 2010 at 3:34 am

Just sayin, you can be sure that it’ll be appreciated if a virtual kayboard is released. At least I will.

jorge | June 24, 2010 at 12:04 am

when is the launch of this version???

Zak Kaufman | June 24, 2010 at 3:10 am

Coming soon. No official ETA yet.

davuvnik | June 26, 2010 at 7:51 am

i don’t have a touchscreen but it would be great if you added on screen keyboard support like cristian said,
“Christian | June 21, 2010 at 9:53 pm

Does “touchscreen support” also mean that it comes with an on screen keyboard and full control without the need of an external keyboard?”

imagine, like a pop up keyboard or something like that xD keep up the good work jolicloud team!

Cedric | June 26, 2010 at 5:16 pm

Of course, this idea is under consideration ;)

alex | June 30, 2010 at 3:57 pm

I cant wait for this to come out. Keep up the good work guys!

(get touch support for the lenovo s10-3t!)

DannyBiker | June 30, 2010 at 5:43 pm

Will the HP TC1100 be supported ? Can’t wait to install that upcoming release on my tablet !

Cedric | June 30, 2010 at 9:34 pm

It will be worth to try a live session or, if you have Windows, Jolicloud Express ;)

Keep us posted!

mark | July 3, 2010 at 4:52 pm

Hello. I’ve tried downloading Jolicloud express and the iso for 3 days, but it just hangs. Nothing happens, no prompt to download pops up.

Cedric | July 4, 2010 at 1:29 pm

Hi,

Did you see the message ‘If your download has not started yet, click here.’?

By the way, you can try to download the ISO using BitTorrent:
http://www.jolicloud.com/download#jolicloud-iso

Arobase | July 6, 2010 at 5:28 am

I owned a Futjitsu P1610 wich WiFi connexion works with a previous version of Jolicloud (based on Broadcom chipset), and if the propriatory driver is recognised and actived, I can’t connect to the internet anymore …. ^^
I have checked all the parameters and configuration but with no result.
Can you help ?

As I have no ethernet connexion available at the moment, I cannot do any upgrade at all !

Do you also think you can handle the serial touchscreen for this machine ?

Best regards

Zak Kaufman | July 6, 2010 at 1:10 pm

Sometimes clearing the browser cache can help with this problem, if I understand it correctly.

Also, touchscreen will be supported in the next release!

Arobase | July 6, 2010 at 5:33 pm

What do you mean by cleaning the cache browser ?
This a fresh new install and Jolicloud cannot connect to the internet before I can use any browser… ^^

Cédric Duclos | July 7, 2010 at 12:21 pm

@Arobase

- If you have a hardware switch on your device, make sure it’s ON.
- If Wifi is mentionned in BIOS, make sure it’s ON.
- If a Network icon is displayed in the top panel, right-click on it and make sure Networking and Wireless are enabled.
- Make sure you’re up-to-date (use Ethernet).

Arobase | July 10, 2010 at 2:27 am

All switches are on, but still unable to connect.
When I boot with Windows 7, everything is working but not with Jolicloud.
So I switch back to Ubuntu Netbook 10.04 for the moment…

May be a new try later on with the final version… ^^

Best regards.

DrDaxxy | July 22, 2010 at 6:08 pm

Have you added support for Wacom capacitive touchscreens (which are as far as I know only used together with pen digitizers on convertible tablets so both pen and touch input are possible)? There’s experimental support in linux-wacom I think.

Zak Kaufman | July 23, 2010 at 12:33 pm

I think only the ones listed above have been added.

Tom | July 24, 2010 at 3:01 pm

Got JoliCloud 1.0 - great!!!
Are there any plans to support the Asus eeePC Multitouch Displays?

Cynthia | July 25, 2010 at 3:52 pm

Touch screen settings for the Archos 9?

john | July 28, 2010 at 6:23 am

Looking forward to it too.

Jeremy | July 26, 2010 at 5:30 pm

Yes, touchscreen drivers for Lenovo S10-3t please!

Can | July 28, 2010 at 10:37 pm

I got the live version running on an Asus EeePc T91 right now. I’m trying and so far Jolicloud seems nice. I got a problem though. The touchscreen… works. But as opposed to the way it works on conventional touchscreen devices like Iphone or the touch capabilities provided on PC’s with windows, my touchscreen instead acts like it’s a giant touchpad. i.e. if i tap my finger anywhere on the screen, the mouse cursor doesnt move to where my finger is tapped but instead it just detects my tap but it responds as a click at the location of the mouse cursor. And the cursor moves with my finger movements on screen, but just not aligned with my fingertip. In short, it acts like the touchscreen is a giant touchpad.

Is this how it is supposed to work? Or it is just because im running a LIVE session from the USB stick now?

Lassi | July 31, 2010 at 4:47 pm

Same here, touchscreen on t91mt doesn’t seem to work, it just works as a touchpad. I wonder if it can be configured somehow, can’t find anything…

Dougal | August 1, 2010 at 10:42 pm

Have tried to download the jolicloud torrent but, the torrent is forever stalling. At this rate I could download the complete ISO normally ten times over before the torrent download completes. Is there anyway to get the ISO without using torrent?
Thanks.

Matthew Guay | August 5, 2010 at 4:30 am

What about multitouch touchpads? Do you support two finger scrolling and pinch to zoom on them now?

Akash | August 5, 2010 at 6:41 am

Lenovo S10-3t Touchscreen support pretty please! :)

Looks great! The Touchscreen would put it over the top!

Thanks!
Akash

Rob M | August 6, 2010 at 5:29 pm

Asus T101MT here.

Having trouble following the touchscreen calibration program’s directions. After launching and pressing ok, it takes me to the calibration screen. It says to draw along all edges…do I draw an outline around the screen before pressing enter to tap the X’s sequentially? The wording on the directions prior to the calibration screen are not written very clearly :(

The reason I ask is no matter what I try, when I complete the process and restart, touching the screen always results in the cursor being in the upper left corner and I cannot move it anywhere. But the fact it recognizes the tap tells me the drivers work…I’m just unable to calibrate it properly. (?)

If anyone is more familiar with this process please let me know, or point me to another thread somewhere I haven’t found yet. New jolicloud user here, this is pretty impressive stuff.

sakis | August 9, 2010 at 1:42 pm

Will there ever be support for the touch screen for the older Flybook tablets (I currently have the A33i model)?

I’ve found a Flybuntu (Ubuntu) version that supports touch screen capability plus the internal-mouse-joystick-thing but I’m not sure on how to copy the necessary modules and configuration files to Jolicloud.

http://www.plop.at/en/dialogue_flybook.html

KenP | August 11, 2010 at 2:41 pm

Will it support HP’s touchsmart tm2 notebook? It has a Nextwindow-based touchscreen (1950, i believe.)

dissidentme | August 14, 2010 at 9:23 pm

where is on screen keyboard???? also,pls add assus 101mt to list of touch supported netbooks,the touchpad on this thing sux terribly…

MrPink | August 30, 2010 at 12:01 pm

Please add support for the Acer 1825pt(z)
This OS looks amazing :)

Rahuldev | August 30, 2010 at 5:20 pm

hello, anyone here knows about wacome linux support for my HP TX 2028 Au tablet. ???? please help….

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