Anyone using Linux successfully on a (full-size ~ A4) tablet PC, and if so, what distro and what device?<br><br>Rather unsuccessfully.<br>have yet to get round to resolving the issue, but using wubi, the fixes i found on the net didnt work for me n my x60.<br>
pen as unresponsive on screen as if it were a normal (non-tablet) screen.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/18 Robert Ladyman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:it@file-away.co.uk">it@file-away.co.uk</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Many, many thanks.<br>
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On Wednesday 18 March 2009 15:48:58 Robert McWilliam wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:41:01AM +0000, Robert Ladyman wrote:<br>
> > Anyone using Linux successfully on a (full-size ~ A4) tablet PC, and if<br>
> > so, what distro and what device?<br>
><br>
> I'm using a thinkpad X61T with Ubuntu now. I've previously used an HP<br>
> and a Fujitsu tablet with Ubuntu. With 8.10 I had to set up the tablet<br>
> in the xorg.conf manually but it works fine now that I have. Previous<br>
> versions worked out of the box (except the non-pen touch in the X61)<br>
> but the change to having a minimal xorg.conf and everything being<br>
> autodetected lost the support for serial tablets (until recently<br>
> pretty much all tablet PCs were using serial internally - I don't know<br>
> if it's changed now) USB ones still work out of the box I think.<br>
><br>
> I haven't gotten screen rotation to work yet but I have heard that<br>
> other people have. The X61 has a 4:3 screen so things don't change<br>
> much rotating it so I've never bothered to look into getting it to<br>
> work properly.<br>
><br>
> There are some issues if you're planning on getting one without a<br>
> keyboard (or using one with a keyboard in tablet mode). I haven't<br>
> found any handwriting recognition software for linux that's<br>
> particularly good so you're left with onscreen keyboard (onboard is<br>
> fucntional and can be resized but isn't particularly attractive) or<br>
> using one of the primitive ones. Possibly a bigger problem is password<br>
> entry: getting an onscreen keyboard for screensaver unlock and GDM has<br>
> so far been beyond me. I haven't tried all that hard as I've got a<br>
> fingerprint reader on this tablet. I have seen docs for getting onboard<br>
> to run when GDM comes up but I haven't seen anything for the<br>
> screensaver unlock prompt. It might be somewhere on the internet<br>
> though...<br>
><br>
> If you have a specific model that you're thinking of getting then<br>
> google can usually come up someone else who's already tried it unless<br>
> it's very new.<br>
><br>
> Robert<br>
><br>
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