Hey guys, first off, I'll make no bones about it... I'm an absolute noob. But I wanna learn!

 

So I have the OPi PC and I purchased this 7" HDMI USB touch screen

 

Now, I've plugged it all in and the screen worked fine right out of the box but the touch did not. I've verified it's working by plugging it into my desktop and everything worked great.

 

I can only assume that it's not working due to a lack of drivers. The screen came with a CD that contained the screen drivers but not the touch drivers. It also came with a handful of RPi distros with the drivers preinstalled.  But nothing for OPi

 

Can anyone offer some suggestions?

You could start by trying to figure out what the touch screen is.

lsusb should give you the USB PID/VID when it's plugged in. 

You could then have a look on http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids to see what it is.

Alternatively find the part number for the touch controller chip on the screen.

 

Armed with the knowledge of what drivers you're looking for, you can start looking for drivers.

You may be able to pull them out of one of the RPi distros you mentioned.

Well, in my attempts at playing around and clicking different buttons I managed to get it working. I swapped to the "Next" kernel and hey presto, it just started. But I'm not sure why.