Comments on: Mandriva 2007.1 on HP TX1120 tablet

By: vdanen

vdanen — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:59:01 +0000

I haven’t tried 2008.1 on the tablet yet (haven’t had time to try it on something I use for “real” work, but I did try it on my toshiba libretto). I do plan on loading 2008.1 on there within a few weeks of release.

Glad to hear there’s no real regression. I did get the tablet to work at one point with 2008… I think doing an update of something borked it somehow tho… doesn’t work anymore. The webcam I did get to work in ekiga tho, but I didn’t spend too much time on it since I don’t really IM, VoIP, or video-chat with anyone.

By: PaulG

PaulG — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:33:17 +0000

I have just loaded 2008.0 on my TX1120…..outstanding. I also tried the 2008.1 beta….even better, The only things not working out of the box are the tablet function and the web-cam (I think)…..

By: Ehi O

Ehi O — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:14:08 +0000

Just got word that the audio fix is now in the ALSA HG tree.
I’ve not tried yet though..

By: Ehi O

Ehi O — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:11:50 +0000

Try to remove the entry

Option “TouchpadOff” “2″

It might help

By: Ehi O

Ehi O — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:09:16 +0000

Option “TapTimer” “0″
Option “LongtouchTimer” “160″
Option “LongTapTimer” “160″

Adding the above 3 lines to the touchscreen device section in xorg.conf makes the pen work quite fine. To right click just use the good old tap-n-half technique: 2 quick taps but keep the pen pressed down on the second tap.
On screen keyboard is xvkbd
Also adding RandRRotation to the nvidia device section allows you to rotate the screen.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:39:26 +0000

Same here. Actually I have tried about 40 distros on the TX 1122 and several hang, requiring me to ‘push’ the power button. The biggest problem seems to be the sound. I can get the wifi going and might as well give up for now on the tablet functions (w/out a lot of tweaking). The front earphone works w/some distros. Sabayon works well, as does a few others, but Mandriva was the most promising–until I tried 2008….maybe they will fix the ‘power’ issue….lol

By: ehio

ehio — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 05:31:13 +0000

Mandriva 2008.0 beta 1
Has anyone tried to boot Mandriva 2008 on the tx laptop.
I found that on my tx1140 series, the kernel just hangs until I press the power button again (a soft lock up??)

By: Vincent Danen

Vincent Danen — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:19:18 +0000

Oh. This might be really simple but the little “scroll wheel” on the touchpad (the separate strip to the side that in windows allows for scrolling up and down) doesn’t seem to work (I think it did before, but I can’t remember). Scrolling that with my finger just moves the mouse pointer up and down (synaptics touchpad). I’ve got the following in xorg.conf:

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “SynapticsMouse1″
Driver “synaptics”
Option “SHMConfig” “on”
Option “TouchpadOff” “2″
EndSection

…

InputDevice “SynapticsMouse1″ “AlwaysCore”

Any ideas?

By: Vincent Danen

Vincent Danen — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:15:13 +0000

Yaaaa! Ok, had to change 99-evtouch.rules slightly to add the KERNEL bit first, then the rest. udev was complaining otherwise (might have been the lack of a space before the SYMLINK bit tho, not sure). Anyways, it works!

The only issues I’m seeing now is there’s a bit of a delay, i.e. you need to hold the pen down instead of a quick tap to make it move. Also need to figure out how to emulate a right click.

And then find an on-screen keyboard and it will actually be usable as a full tablet.

This entry is getting quite full of comments… I should really take all of this and put it on my wiki as a tutorial or something…

Thanks for those tips tho! They work great, although I think I need to figure out how to tweak things a little better.

By: Vincent Danen

Vincent Danen — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:11:05 +0000

I can see the camera work in kopete and ekiga, which is nice. Looks much better in ekiga than kopete tho. Tried the sound test and stuff in ekiga and it wasn’t working, so I don’t think the microphone is working properly (yet).