Comments on: fedora 8 on X41 tablet Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/04/fedora-8-on-x41-tablet-lenovoibm-thinkpad/ Ramblings on law school in New York, free software, and the spaces in between. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:11:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Traces of Martin's State http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/04/fedora-8-on-x41-tablet-lenovoibm-thinkpad/#comment-25477 Traces of Martin's State Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:46:12 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/04/fedora-8-on-x41-tablet-lenovoibm-thinkpad/#comment-25477 <strong>Fedora 8 on the Dell X1 - discussion...</strong> Okay, so I updated my Dell Latitude X1 to Fedora 8. I downloaded the DVD ISO, and installed from the external DVD drive. I wiped out the partitions / (root), /boot and swap, and kept my /home partition. (Ie. I did not “upgrade” but did a &#... Fedora 8 on the Dell X1 - discussion…

Okay, so I updated my Dell Latitude X1 to Fedora 8. I downloaded the DVD ISO, and installed from the external DVD drive. I wiped out the partitions / (root), /boot and swap, and kept my /home partition. (Ie. I did not “upgrade” but did a &#…

]]> By: Luis Villa: fedora 8 on X41 tablet Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad » News » BuzzTracker News Headlines http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/04/fedora-8-on-x41-tablet-lenovoibm-thinkpad/#comment-25443 Luis Villa: fedora 8 on X41 tablet Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad » News » BuzzTracker News Headlines Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:45:27 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/04/fedora-8-on-x41-tablet-lenovoibm-thinkpad/#comment-25443 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Luis Villa: fedora 8 on X41 tablet Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> Kramer auto Pingback[...] Luis Villa: fedora 8 on X41 tablet Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad [...]

]]> By: jonathan http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/04/fedora-8-on-x41-tablet-lenovoibm-thinkpad/#comment-25376 jonathan Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:15:34 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/04/fedora-8-on-x41-tablet-lenovoibm-thinkpad/#comment-25376 one distro i have seen has got acpi _ listen, is there something like that in fedora? thanks one distro i have seen has got acpi _ listen, is there something like that in fedora?

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]]> By: Jonathan http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/04/fedora-8-on-x41-tablet-lenovoibm-thinkpad/#comment-25371 Jonathan Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:57:19 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/04/fedora-8-on-x41-tablet-lenovoibm-thinkpad/#comment-25371 i noticed that in another distribution there is acpi_listen, has fedora got an equivalent? i noticed that in another distribution there is acpi_listen, has fedora got an equivalent?

]]> By: Jonathan http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/04/fedora-8-on-x41-tablet-lenovoibm-thinkpad/#comment-25370 Jonathan Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:38:00 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/04/fedora-8-on-x41-tablet-lenovoibm-thinkpad/#comment-25370 Thanks guys, i did find something about acpi_listen but that seems to be in another distro! Thanks guys, i did find something about acpi_listen but that seems to be in another distro!

]]> By: Luis http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/04/fedora-8-on-x41-tablet-lenovoibm-thinkpad/#comment-25368 Luis Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:52:39 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/04/fedora-8-on-x41-tablet-lenovoibm-thinkpad/#comment-25368 Jeremy: thinkpad-acpi is already generating ACPI events; it just needs something to monitor those. Bugs are filed as 366211 and also 365951. Jeremy: thinkpad-acpi is already generating ACPI events; it just needs something to monitor those. Bugs are filed as 366211 and also 365951.

]]> By: Jeremy Katz http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/04/fedora-8-on-x41-tablet-lenovoibm-thinkpad/#comment-25367 Jeremy Katz Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:48:58 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/04/fedora-8-on-x41-tablet-lenovoibm-thinkpad/#comment-25367 Getting rotation to work automatically shouldn't be that hard, it's mostly a matter of having something watch for the keypress and then do the appropriate xrandr bit. I suspect either doing that within the X server itself or, if there's a desire to keep the policy out of the X server, in gnome-settings-daemon is pretty straight-forward. Improving some of the out of the box experience with tablets in particular is on the list of little things that I want to spend a little time on for Fedora 9 as I'm considering getting a tablet to use myself for school come January ;-) That likely includes the autoration bits. Getting rotation to work automatically shouldn’t be that hard, it’s mostly a matter of having something watch for the keypress and then do the appropriate xrandr bit. I suspect either doing that within the X server itself or, if there’s a desire to keep the policy out of the X server, in gnome-settings-daemon is pretty straight-forward.

Improving some of the out of the box experience with tablets in particular is on the list of little things that I want to spend a little time on for Fedora 9 as I’m considering getting a tablet to use myself for school come January ;-) That likely includes the autoration bits.

]]> By: Luis http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/04/fedora-8-on-x41-tablet-lenovoibm-thinkpad/#comment-25366 Luis Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:35:48 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/04/fedora-8-on-x41-tablet-lenovoibm-thinkpad/#comment-25366 Jonathan: I have not. I know it is possible (specifically, Emperor Linux had it working for me when I bought it) but I don't know how that was done and have not gotten it working under Fedora. Jonathan: I have not. I know it is possible (specifically, Emperor Linux had it working for me when I bought it) but I don’t know how that was done and have not gotten it working under Fedora.

]]> By: Jonathan http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/04/fedora-8-on-x41-tablet-lenovoibm-thinkpad/#comment-25365 Jonathan Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:20:20 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/11/04/fedora-8-on-x41-tablet-lenovoibm-thinkpad/#comment-25365 Hi there, have you managed to find a way to get the screen to rotate automatically when you change the screen? Hi there, have you managed to find a way to get the screen to rotate automatically when you change the screen?

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