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Category: x61

The Linux Tablet: Wacom rotations – waking up on the wrong side

Update: updated the script with improved (functional) error output. added notes about xhost.

There is an annoying bug in the sequence of code that manages the wacom rotation / sleep / resume and stylus calibration right now. (Where “right now” is Ubuntu Intrepid, with the 0.8.2-1 wacom drivers.)

This is a document bug over at the [...]

The Linux Tablet: Wacom drivers

Ubuntu 8.10 configured most everything properly, as mentioned in the previous post in this series, but it did not result in a functional pen.

The tablet screen is a wacom digitizer with a pen that has two buttons (eraser and a finger button), and the tablet can differentiate between touching and hovering. The linux wacom [...]

The path to a Linux Tablet

I finally broke down and bought a Lenovo X61 tablet (with SXGA+ screen!), and it arrived this week. This is the first of a series of posts about getting it up and running with Linux.

First off, some specs:

Lenovo X61 Tablet PC with XSGA+ (1400×1050) screen (not multi-touch) 4 gigs of ram 200gb SATA hard disk WIFI (Intel [...]