[dundee] Tablet PC's

[Robert Ladyman]

Many, many thanks.

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