Multi-touch screens now supported in Linux

As we can see watching a video provided by Interactive Computing Laboratory, multi-touch screens are not only supported in Windows 7 but also in Linux.

Benjamin Tissoires, Stephane Chatty and Gilles Tabart informed that multi-touch technology has been experimentally incorporated into Fedora 12 equipped with modified applications. Some changes have also been applied in X.org evdev driver module and the kernel itself which according to the authors can not be older than 2.6.31.

Some problems can also be caused by drivers that a user must install in the system. Although it is not the official implementation of this technology, the authors of the movie are hoping that it is a step in the right direction.