We had previously many talks about getting multitouch support for Android, and you probably remember Luke’s work to demonstrate capabilities of G1 to run multi-touch. Today we have a breaking news from France, a team from the ENAC interactive computing laboratory -- including Mohamed-Ikbel Boulabiar, Stephane Chatty and Sebastien Hamdani -- succeeded to bring native multitouch support to Linux.

The code released is a proof-of-concept of what could be done with linux kernel and need to be improved for production, but you can see already a demo in the video below of their actual work

To run the sample provide you will need Linux kernel 2.6.30; a computer with a Broadcom 5974, Stantum, NTrig or DiamondTouch surface (the HP TouchSmart tx2 has a Ntrig surface, but you need to get the appropriate firmware from the NTrig site); their NTrig, Stantum, or DiamondTouch driver, or the Broadcom 5974 driver from Henrik Rydberg; in addition to demo code.

More information could be found here