Friday, November 24, 2006

Another Vista experiment

It's "Black Friday" here in the States. That's the day when the Christmas shopping season "officially" starts and stores have insane deals on everything to try to get everyone to blow their entire holiday budget right away. Needless to say, I am staying home.

I decided to give the "Release" version of Vista another shot on my TabletKiosk eo v7110. Thanks to JKK, I got the WLAN drivers and the eGalax resistive touch digitizer drivers and VIA video drivers installed over Windows Update right after. However, the screen never did properly calibrate. It gave me a nasty "NO!" beep when I tried to hit the crosshairs on the bottom left. It would only calibrate if I targeted BELOW those crosshairs, thus giving me a bad calibration.

Finally, while the Amtek Lifestyle Button driver from Windows XP did work, the screen only worked properly at 800x480. Setting it to a higher resolution gave me a screen that scrolled horizontally and vertically instead of "scaling" the screen as Windows XP does.

I spent hours working on settings and drivers to no avail.

Verdict: It's MUCH closer, but still not ready. Vista is GORGEOUS too - but we'll have to wait.

2 comments:

CTitanic said...

Look at my blog, I wrote about how to calibrate the screen in vista installed in an eo. In another hand, I had that panning issue but it went away after installing the display drivers that came in the original eo CD. Currently I have Vista RC2 installed in my v7110 with everything working 100%

BTW, where did you get the final release. I'm currently hunting the Business version that should be release tomorrow.

thoughtfix said...

The answer to your question: MSDN of course :)