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By: Upgrading Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) to Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) « SOS

Upgrading Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) to Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) « SOS — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:26:51 +0000

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By: Shane O'Sullivan

Shane O'Sullivan — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:50:33 +0000

Hi Sean,

Now that you mention it, my pen is not working in Gibbon, which I hadn’t noticed before. I’ll have to look in to it.

Thanks for pointing that out

Shane

By: Sean Clapshaw

Sean Clapshaw — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:18:27 +0000

I’m running 7.10 and have the pen and mouse scrooling working. I noticed that the watcom device (option “Device” “/dev/wacom”) is no longer is the same place here is the new string (option “Device” “/dev/input/wacom”) this was aready in my xorg.conf

Their was also another section in xorg.conf

# Uncomment if you have a wacom tablet
# InputDevice “stylus” “SendCoreEvents”
# InputDevice “cursor” “SendCoreEvents”
# InputDevice “eraser” “SendCoreEvents”
InputDevice “Synaptics Touchpad”

And well I of course uncommented the stylus cursor and eraser lines.

I’m still having problems with the swiveling. I can get it to swivel but then everything just stops working right the mouse behave as if I am still in normal view and I can’t get it to swivel back without restarting gnome — any insight on this would be great!

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By: Shane O'Sullivan

Shane O'Sullivan — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:59:07 +0000

I don’t currently know how to map the X41 rotation button to an action. However, if the monitor swivel is not triggering the correct ACPI event (as I described in the post), you can always place an icon in your toolbar to execute the x41tsdown.sh and x41tsup.sh scripts.

Right click on the main panel and choose “Add To Panel”.
Click the “Custom Application Launcher” button.
Fill in the Name field with something like “Swivel Down”.
Fill in the command field with /etc/acpi/x41tsdown.sh

Repeat these steps for the /etc/acpi/x41tsup.sh script.

By: Michael Daitzman

Michael Daitzman — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:52:40 +0000

I’m running 7.04 (Feisty Fawn?), though I had this same problem with 6.x – basically rotating and folding down does not seem to fire off the changes. Could you tell me if there is a way to map the x41 buttons to do the same? Perhaps that would work for me. . . . .

Thanks!

By: Ubuntu on Thinkpad X41 - Installing Multimedia Components « SOS

Ubuntu on Thinkpad X41 - Installing Multimedia Components « SOS — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:10:08 +0000

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By: Ubuntu Ultimate Edition, with preinstalled coolness « SOS

Ubuntu Ultimate Edition, with preinstalled coolness « SOS — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:09:57 +0000

[...] I haven’t tried it out myself, so caveat emptor, but if you’re thinking of installing Ubunty Edgy (6.10) and would like lots of the extras listed on that page, then it could be worth giving a go. If you have a Thinkpad X41 and want to get it’s pen and screen features working however, you will still have to install these yourself. I’ve posted instructions here. [...]

By: Ubuntu on Thinkpad X41 - Installing Utility Programs « SOS

Ubuntu on Thinkpad X41 - Installing Utility Programs « SOS — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:07:41 +0000

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