We recently ordered some Viliv X70s to be used as portiable registry systems around the school which meant I needed to figure out how to setup the devices (5x X70's, 4x S5's)to be as accessible as possible for teaching staff. Here I'll go through the steps I took to get the X70 working as a HID compliant touch screen device rather than using the driver that came bundled with it. Here is a fairly in-depth tutorial of the process I took, enjoy and good luck:

Part 1

First off I needed to install Windows 7 as our devices came with Windows XP due to a shortage of the X70s with Windows 7 in the UK at the time. To do this I used Microsoft's Windows 7 DVD to USB tool from HERE, first of you need to extract the ISO image off an official Windows 7 disc onto your hard drive, I used MagicISO to extract the image. Once you have your image then load up Microsoft's tool and choose the location of the ISO along with your desired USB destination, make sure there is nothing valuable on the USB pen and that it's at least 4GB in size.

After a short period the tool should finish copying the ISO giving you a bootable Windows 7 USB stick that you can use in your Viliv. As the Viliv uses SD memory you will probably need to change the Hard Drive boot priority to the USB stick rather than choosing it as a bootable option.

The problem is once you have booted into the Windows 7 installer you haven't got access to a keyboard and mouse due to the single USB port being in use add to that no touchscreen during the installing and you've got some issues. The way I got around this was by holding in the menu button for around 5 seconds which turns the knob into a mouse pointer rather than arrow keys, if you use this along with the "A" and "B" buttons as your mouse clicks you should be able to get through the installer fine. After the second reboot you will be asked for the CD Key along with the PC name etc, if you click the little "Access" button in the bottom left corner you can turn on the on-screen keyboard allowing you to type.

With Windows 7 installed I could go about installing the various drivers that come with these Viliv devices, continuing reading part 2 to see which drivers I installed and in what order.

Part 2

There is a fairly precise order in how you should install the drivers on the Viliv devices, I found out the hard way and now I've found the best way to install drivers are as follows:

1. System Driver (reboot)
2. Chipset (reboot)
3. Touchside (reboot)
4. Graphics
5. Audio
6. Viliv Manager (may need to reboot, enable Wifi + bluetooth + modem)
7. Wifi Driver + Bluetooth software if needed
8. Mobile Partner Software

That's all I used but you can easily just install all the other software such as the webcam and CubeUI in any order, you can find all of the latest drivers for the Viliv X70 here.

Part 3

As we are using these as portable register devices I needed to make it as simple as possible for staff to use which isn't that easy due to our registry system being designed for full keyboard with 17" screen computers. The best I could do was clean up the frontend as much as possible and have the register webpage + keyboard to run on startup. To get the webpage loading on startup was a simple matter of creating the link plus setting it as the homepage then dragging the Internet Explorer icon to the startup folder, to improve this more I went about adding "-k" to all of the Internet Explorer shortcuts as this opens the web browser in kiosk mode which gives users less to concentrate on.

I managed to get Viliv's Soft Keyboard software to load on startup but it's unusable with our current registry system as you can't read any of the pupil names from under the keyboard, to solve this I wanted to use Microsoft's own on-screen keyboard which is great on it's own but much better when setup with Touchscreen HID Drivers. This is where my problems began as there isn't any official HID capable drivers for the Viliv X70! After a bit of scrubbing around the internet I managed to find some tweaked drivers for another device which work with the X70 but with all tweaked and hacked goods they are never easy to install. Here is how I went about installing it:

Getting HID to Work

Hold Menu for 5 seconds to turn knob into a mouse if using this method try not to touch the touchscreen as it can make the mouse go corrupt. This allows you to use the USB port for your pen drive with the new beta HID drivers. With that done follow these few simple steps to complete the HID installation:

• Goto Device Manager > Human Interface Devices
• Right click PS/2 HID Touch Digitizer Device and choose update driver software
• Browse my computer for driver software
• "Let me pick from list of device drivers on my computer"
• Click "I have a disk"
• Browse to your X32 folder of the egalaxydriver package and choose PS2mini.ini
• Click okay, then next
• It will show up as PS/2 HID Touch Digitizer Device still
• Now run HIDeGalaxyTouch application which should be on your desktop then choose 4 Points Calibration
• Hold  your stylus on each point till it says "OK"
• You may have to restart after this process.

You should now have a HID enabled X70!