I have been made soft by point and click installation GUI's I think.
I have acquired a broken Fujitsu P1120 sub notebook (it really is tiny) after it had coke (the drink) spilt all over it. After a lot of cleaning up and a tricky repair operation on the keyboard it is now once again operational.
It probably deserves a slightly more lightweight distro (it's only a Transmeta 800) but until I have learnt more about the hardware I have installed SuSE 9.2 on it.
SuSE 9.2 has done a fantastic job of discovering the hardware, all the usually tricky things are working. Suspend mode, lid switch, CPU throttling (different profiles for AC and battery power), built in wireless, battery meter. In fact only two things remain.
The modem (which I am not bothered about at the moment) and the touchscreen. It has a "nipple" pointer as well and that is working fine. I can see the touchscreen device in /proc/bus/usb as follows
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=02 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0430 ProdID=0508 Rev=11.30 S: Manufacturer=Fujitsu Takamisawa S: Product=USB Touch Panel C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr= 20mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=usbhid E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=10ms
The fact that the hid driver has picked it up is a positive thing, but how do I add this to my X config and would it be reasonable to expect things like tap to click to work. Also will adding this break the already configured nipple pointer or can you specify more than one active pointing device.
As always any help would be appreciated.
Hi Wayne
On Sunday 17 April 2005 00:53, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
The fact that the hid driver has picked it up is a positive thing, but how do I add this to my X config and would it be reasonable to expect things like tap to click to work. Also will adding this break the already configured nipple pointer or can you specify more than one active pointing device.
Multiple pointing devices are very easy to set up - I've done a few touch screen & mouse combos... This little how-to should get you on your way.
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/XFree86-Second-Mouse.html#XFREE4
Regards, Paul.
On Sunday 17 April 2005 1:09 am, Paul wrote:
Multiple pointing devices are very easy to set up - I've done a few touch screen & mouse combos... This little how-to should get you on your way.
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/XFree86-Second-Mouse.html#XFREE4
Regards, Paul.
Ahh thanks for that Paul, after reading that I have now got to the stage where the touchscreen has some affect on the pointer, unfortunately not the right one in that if I dare touch the screen then the mouse pointer jumps all over the place.
I have found a guy that has built a XFree86 driver. http://ariescomputing.com/lifebook/
Unfortunately the precompiled binary he provides for Xfree86 4.3 naturally causes X.org to die horribly so I need to put the source packages on for X.org and try and build the driver against them. Not a job for tonight methinks.
Hi Wayne
On Sunday 17 April 2005 02:32, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I have found a guy that has built a XFree86 driver. http://ariescomputing.com/lifebook/
Unfortunately the precompiled binary he provides for Xfree86 4.3 naturally causes X.org to die horribly so I need to put the source packages on for X.org and try and build the driver against them. Not a job for tonight methinks.
Ah... That brings back memories of having to hack a driver with minimal info about the protocol used. You have the advantage that the hard work has already been done !
Regards, Paul.
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