Lilliput touch screen

Submitted: Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 00:50
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Just got myself a Lilliput 8" VGA touchscreen. Tried loading it onto my laptop but it continually froze. Then it wouldn't let me uninstall. The laptop had to be completely reformatted and rebuilt which hurt a lot. However after the rebuild the program was loaded and same thing happened. Has any one experienced the same problem?
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Reply By: Member - Sam (NSW) - Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 08:15

Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 08:15
I have had a similar issue with my 7" Lilliput Touchscreen. The drivers are a load of rubbish. Caused the laptop to lock up or run very slowly. I was able to uninstall the drivers though, however, it required a bit of manual mucking around and hacking of the registry to clear all the rubbish out. Just gave up on te touch screen side of things and use an optical mouse instead. So am not too disappointed. Its still a nice screen.
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Follow Up By: BenSpoon - Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 15:10

Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 15:10
the installation program for the drivers is rooted.
You are better off getting windows to search the CD for the drivers, and installing them that way. To uninstall, press the windows logo on your keyboard and pause-break at the same time, go to hardware > device manager > right click the offending device and click uninstall.
If you uninstall then boot up again with the monitor plugged in it should ask for the drivers- then get windows to search the CD that was sent with the monitor.
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Reply By: theratt - Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:08

Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:08
same trouble i had, give up on the touch screen and use cordless mouse
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Reply By: Member - Jeff M (WA) - Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:21

Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:21
Maybea member message to Member-PeterYork4x4 as he's got his working, my brother has also got one that works fine with touch screen drivers?? He's never mentioned any problems with them.
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Follow Up By: pprass - Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:53

Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:53
Thanks Jeff - will do when I return from our trip. Wife is really happy that she doesn't have to nurse a laptop for 6,000km's!
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Reply By: pprass - Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:27

Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:27
Thanks Sam and therat - I have now done the same thing - just used it as a standard monitor. I will be velcroing the screen to the dash for now and use the mouse.
Thanks again.

ps - funny how no one mentioned of any problems in the feedback section of eBay.
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Follow Up By: Footloose - Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:47

Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:47
Velcro ? Special kind ? How difficult will the screen be on corregations do you think ?
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Follow Up By: geocacher (djcache) - Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 13:39

Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 13:39
How do you think I held the 9323 control head on the Canning trip. Velcro. Wonderful stuff if you buy the brand name gear - and what the 2 inch wide stuff self adhesive stuff won't hold isn't worth holding.

You can use just the hook side to tape cables and other stuff to carpet on dash mats and floors too. Oh and the Satphone antenna cable was held along the roof rack with .... you guessed it! Velcro.

The MP3 player was .... velcro'd.

The mike for the 9323 sat up on the dash carpet with... velcro.

It's great. Take an extra metre of both sides in each size and you'll find uses for it too. The adhesive on the Velcro branded self adhesive velcro sticks like bleep to a blanket and comes off later with very little residue. (Any residual can be tacked off with the back of the bit you just pulled off.)

Almost makes me wish I had carpet in the courier .. until I remember how wet the inside of the truck got in that muddy bog hole. But I am ordering a dash carpet for it.... oh and some more velcro....

Dave
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Follow Up By: Footloose - Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 13:45

Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 13:45
Ok Mr GeoVelcro :) I guess I just havent found the right stuff yet
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Reply By: Vince NSW - Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:57

Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:57
At the risk of sounding Dumb. ( Ishould be used to it), By opitical mouse, do you mean a cord less mouse.
I have been looking at going down the touch screen track but I may have to re think the whole idea.
Vince
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Follow Up By: BenSpoon - Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 14:57

Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 14:57
An optical mouse is one that uses light instead of a trackball like old mice. look under the mouse- if it has balls then its a traditional old-syle. These get gummed up easily and are a pig to use when they get old or dirty. For optical when you lift it you will see an LED flashing, just give it a quick blow when its dirty and its good as new again. I cant think of any newer cordless mice that are not optical.
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Follow Up By: Utemad - Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 15:12

Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 15:12
"look under the mouse- if it has balls then its a traditional old-syle"

ROFLMAO
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Follow Up By: old-plodder - Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 17:46

Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 17:46
I am using a Logitech MX310 optical mouse with cord right now.
Bought last month.
Had to hunt for it though on the Logitech web site so I had a part number to quote my supplier.
Gave up on those cordles ones for normal use, batteries went flat too quickly. Cordless works well on the laptop with rechargable battaries.
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Follow Up By: vuduguru - Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 22:54

Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 22:54
looked under the dog... has balls too. Can I replace my mouse with my dog? only bleep s i the garden. Better than phriday funnies?$%#
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Follow Up By: BenSpoon - Monday, Jun 13, 2005 at 13:02

Monday, Jun 13, 2005 at 13:02
....I dunno about cleaning his balls when he starts jumping around the screen though.
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Reply By: Groove - Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 18:54

Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 18:54
Hi Guys
Have used a 7 inch lilliput for about 18 months now with no problems.
I didnt use the dirvers that came with the unit but rather downloaded a set from this website.

Absolutely heaps of info on these screens at this site

Cheers
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Follow Up By: Groove - Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 18:55

Friday, Jun 10, 2005 at 18:55
oops stuffed the links

try this
this website.

Absolutely heaps of info on these screens at this site

Cheers
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Reply By: Jarrod - Saturday, Jun 11, 2005 at 13:33

Saturday, Jun 11, 2005 at 13:33
I agree with Groove. Have had a lillyput touchscreen for about the same time, and downloaded the drivers. Works an absolute treat...
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Reply By: pprass - Tuesday, Jul 05, 2005 at 22:44

Tuesday, Jul 05, 2005 at 22:44
Just back from our central Aus trip and after 7.700kms with the screen velcroed to the dash it was marvelous. Even over extremely heavy corrugated tracks, smashing into ditches and huge water ponds, the screen did not budge or lose signal. The laptop on the other hand was struggling at times especially when the hard drive was running.

Groove - I downloaded the drivers from the site that you linked, however it still won't run. The laptop with XP recognises new hardware, but I don't think the program has installed. I have uninstalled using device manager and reinstalled a few times but without success. Any other hints?
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