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Ryan - Ubuntu Setup Guide VIII. Wacom Tablet Config

Ryan — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:37:13 +0000

Excellent. Thanks a ton! Keep up with all the excellent guides!

aliencam - Ubuntu Setup Guide Part V. Installing Software

aliencam — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:01:05 +0000

Without any optimization my laptop is at around 16W, but I remember with Ubuntu 8.04 I was able to get it down to 9W.� I haven't done any power tweaking yet, but I will soon.

gecko - Ubuntu Setup Guide Part V. Installing Software

gecko — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:21:37 +0000

hi, may i know whats the idle power consumption of your X61T? mine takes 13watts. I can't lower it to optimized win vista levels of 9watts. hope you know how to achieve that! dual booting linux mint and win7 btw.

aliencam - Twitter posts this week.

aliencam — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:35:58 +0000

it is fixed now.

Wincent - Thinkpad Middle Mouse Scrolling in Ubuntu 8.10

Wincent — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:13:12 +0000

I had it working fine on my t500 (jaunty/x64), using the fdi file fix. But because of instability with the 64 bit system (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+... I switched to 32 bit. The only way i could get it to work now, is setting it manually, with xinput, and specifying "Evdev" in each stanza, ie: xinput set-int-prop "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" "Evdev Wheel Emulation" 8 1 Hope this helps someone.

aliencam - Ubuntu Setup Guide Part VII: Pidgin

aliencam — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:40:39 +0000

Got it figured out: http://blog.aliencam.net/2009/06/ubuntu-setup-gui...

aliencam - Ubuntu Setup Guide Part VII: Pidgin

aliencam — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:17:16 +0000

Not yet, I got it to work in 8.10, but I haven't tried in 9.04. That is one of my next things to try to figure out.

Ryan - Ubuntu Setup Guide Part VII: Pidgin

Ryan — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:28:09 +0000

I'm loving all the guides! Thanks. I am wondering... have you figured out anything for automatic screen rotation? Or screen rotation at all? This would be really useful for me when I use the tablet. I have the same computer as you (I don't have touch though, opted for the higher resolution...) Thanks

aliencam - Valley Metro and Google Public Transit

aliencam — Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:58:13 +0000

I don't know, how long could it possibly take? this is starting to get ridiculous. We need to start sending regular emails to annoy them into some progress. all I'm sure of is it is still not up on google maps yet.

David - Valley Metro and Google Public Transit

David — Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:15:17 +0000

I received that same message in Januarary, they are still working on it?

Alejandro Vicente Grabovetsky - f.lux in Linux

Alejandro Vicente Grabovetsky — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:43:53 +0000

Excellent :-) Thanks for the tip, I put it on my Ubuntu box and it works wonders!
I even got inspired and got my blog background to change colour temperature depending on the time of day :-D

David - Thinkpad Middle Mouse Scrolling in Ubuntu 8.10

David — Wed, 6 May 2009 17:18:23 +0000

Hi aliencam The first part about creating the /etc/hal/fdi/policy/mouse-wheel.fdi file works perfect with Ubuntu 9.04 64bit on a Thinkpad X200 this is what xinput --list-props "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" told me before reboot: Device 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint': Device Enabled (99):1 Evdev Axis Inversion (236):0, 0 Evdev Reopen Attempts (233):10 Evdev Axis Calibration (234): Evdev Axes Swap (235):0 Evdev Middle Button Emulation (237):2 Evdev Middle Button Timeout (238):50 Evdev Wheel Emulation (239):0 Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes (240):0, 0, 4, 5 Evdev Wheel Emulation Inertia (241):10 Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout (242):200 Evdev Wheel Emulation Button (243):4 Evdev Drag Lock Buttons (244):0 and this is what I get now: Device 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint': Device Enabled (99):1 Evdev Axis Inversion (236):0, 0 Evdev Reopen Attempts (233):10 Evdev Axis Calibration (234): Evdev Axes Swap (235):0 Evdev Middle Button Emulation (237):1 Evdev Middle Button Timeout (238):50 Evdev Wheel Emulation (239):1 Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes (240):6, 7, 4, 5 Evdev Wheel Emulation Inertia (241):10 Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout (242):200 Evdev Wheel Emulation Button (243):2 Evdev Drag Lock Buttons (244):0 Thanks for the info

Winner - Thinkpad Middle Mouse Scrolling in Ubuntu 8.10

Winner — Fri, 1 May 2009 20:32:32 +0000

Why does everything in Linux have to be so F*@&^#&ing complicated?

aliencam - Twitter posts this week.

aliencam — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:08:11 +0000

Hey i'm still having problems with touch. It works just fine, but the problem is that the coordinates are about 1" inside the edges of the screen, so its still misconfigured. Also, the right-click button on the tablet stylus doesn't work with hal.

Drew - Twitter posts this week.

Drew — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:31:41 +0000

Touch is working !!!! NO XORG STUFF! :)

Drew - Twitter posts this week.

Drew — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:24:31 +0000

Hey! Working my own setup guide for Jaunty, so far so good. Keep an eye on it! So far I'm attempting to go 100% Hal... touch is being a pain, but I'm this || close! http://geedew.com/blog/x61-tablet-ubuntu/ Drew

aliencam - Twitter posts this week.

aliencam — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:47:27 +0000

Nope, not yet. I've been too busy to try to fix anything in jaunty so far. lots of stuff is broken, but I really don't have any time to mess with it until after May 7th. (I am presenting D-CAB Aeronautics at the MIT 2009 Clean Energy Prize!)

sanktnelson - Twitter posts this week.

sanktnelson — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:03:59 +0000

found a solution to jaunty screen rotation yet?

guffalo - Ubuntu 8.10 X61t Tablet Setup

guffalo — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:57:20 +0000

Shokcing! ... works on a Motion Computing le1700 exactly as posted. Someone on tabletpcbuzz.com pointed me here, I made a backup, c&p-ed, c-a-backspaced and bhzang! Used Wacom drivers in repositories (eg Synaptic) Thank you very much.

driver - OpenSolaris (2008.05) on the Lenovo X61Tablet

driver — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:00:02 +0000

great information it realy solve my problem