external touchscreens - for use on a laptop

[Frank <frank@codedor.be>]

Hi,

this is a general question concerning touchscreens and portable laptops ...
Any ideas are welcome :)

I got an old Toshiba 400 portable - with a broken screen. VGA port out 
still works, but I'd like to experiment a bit, and I was wondering how I 
could hook up a touchscreen on Debian to take over all functionality of 
the X interface (XMMS especially, but also things like selecting files, 
drag and drop files, etc)

Does anybody have any experience with :
   a) hooking up a touchscreen to a Linux laptop (probably not so 
different from a workstation, but since it's on a laptop, I thought it 
relevant to ask the question here) ?
   b) get the main functionality working with X - as to replace the 
mouse in functionality ?
   c) a recommendation for a model for a touchscreen ?

Idealiter - I'd be hanging the portable on the wall with a WiFi card, 
with the touchscreen mounted on it instead of the broken LCD- as to be 
able to have a cheap and affordable audio streaming station for each 
room in my house
(amplification etc would be handled by an external amplifier for each 
floor of my house - through the line-out of the portable)

Thanks in advance :)

Greetings,
Frank


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