Touchscreen/Tablet Fedora Installs

[Resheth]

Anyone have Fedora 11+ running on their tablet laptops?
I've got an install of Fedora 11 running on my Toshiba Tecra M4, but its not ideal. It needs some calibration around the edges.

Does anyone have the packages/fix for this? Fedora doesn't really seem to play nice with tablets as well as ubuntu does.

Also: what tablet laptops do you run fedora from?

[burgessjb]

I've got a Toshiba Tecra M7 and it runs great. I just can't seem to figure out how to configure the tablet buttons and set up screen rotation.

[Gator809]

Hi Cyborg, this is ecinx. try xsetwacom list devices xsetwacom list parameters xsetwacom list modifiers and man xsetwacom. in reference to your signature, you mean gratis or libre?

I don't know how to calibrate it either, but it seems to be working fine for me. I'm on a x201t thinkpad I was looking for a GUI interface for the tablet but couldn't find any. Theress one forKDE but it's complicated to build, for me at least.

[burgessjb]

When it comes to Free Software vs. Google, I choose Google. In everythings else, I vote libre all the way.

That should clear up the libre vs. gratis thing.

The funny thing is that I can get the wacom tablet to rotate sometimes.
What I really need is a script that rotates the screen, and the tablet at the same time.

Furthermore, there are several buttons just below the monitor and one looks like it was designed to rotate the screen. I'd like that button to perform that function.

I also seem to recall that the screen rotated automatically when I went from laptop to tablet mode, but I'm not sure.

Lastly, I here that I might have an accelerometer built into this tablet to protect the hard drive. If that's true it would be neat to set that up to determine the screen orientation.

The really annoying thing: I can rotate the tablet from the terminal, and I can invert the screen from the terminal, but I can't do anything else with the screen. The screen does rotate 90 degrees using the monitor configuration app.

[MinionTech]

Originally Posted by diabeticyborg

I've got a Toshiba Tecra M7 and it runs great. I just can't seem to figure out how to configure the tablet buttons and set up screen rotation.

It won't fix your buttons, but Magick Rotation will rotate the screen when it's changed from standard to tablet mode.

https://launchpad.net/magick-rotation

[burgessjb]

Thank you for that, I will check it out.