Info and help for HP TX2500 Series

[manu7irl]

already did it but it's ok it's just a few things and it was on a 8 gigs disk on key... don't want to ruined my warranty. Thanks anyway it's usefull.

[a_toff]

Hmmmm... A_toff said it worked for him.. A_toff, could you tell us what exactly you did?
Kory

Oops, haven't been watching this thread for a few days... sorry for the delay. I just followed the first part of your post, as follows:

First edit /boot/grub/menu.lst

and find the line that looks like:
# defoptions=quiet splash
and make it
# defoptions=quiet splash i8042.reset

then run
sudo update-grub
and restart and try suspending...

Looks like bdjohnso10 also found your method to work...

[manu7irl]

Where can i found the radeon driver ?

[isachan]

There are 3 types of drivers for Radeon in Linux world, and I'm using fglrx driver installed with envyng. Simply you can install envyng with "sudo apt-get install envyng" and then choose "K menu" -> "System" -> "EnvyNG", then select ATI driver to install.

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By the way, anyone tried the new BIOS F.09 ? I tried it for a short period of time (say, about 2 hours) and had a lot of USB external drive problems. Especially the Western Digital My Book 1TB was not recognized at all.

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Also, another topic : a new HP tablet is coming soon.
Check this out : http://www.tabletpcreview.com/default.asp?newsID=1307

Seems like it has some nice small increment of improvements.

Isao

[manu7irl]

thanks a lot...
i'm feeling stupid i knew that before...
i' m wondering if there's any "how to" for the multimedia buttons to work??

[kjamo36]

Anyone help me with this ?? i got my digitizer working everytime i enter this command in terminal": sudo modprobe wacom

but as soon as i restart it doesnt work anymore untill reenter it in terminal again... the eraser doesnt work neither

and touchscreen is not working =(

I need help!! in running ubuntu 8.10

[manu7irl]

DO EXACTLY THAT FROM GALI STUFF...

***** UPDATED November 3, 2008 *****

NOTES:

If you are on Intrepid Do only that :


~~~~TUTORIAL FOR USB WACOM TABLET PC~~~~


I now put the Code boxes around the all terminal input so you don't have to worry about copying the >

cd ./Desktop

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linuxwacom/linuxwacom-0.8.1-6.tar.bz2

(all of the apt-get commands install the packages we need and updates the system to the latest packages)

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libxi-dev x11proto-input-dev xserver-xorg-dev tk8.4-dev tcl8.4-dev libncurses5-dev

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install wacom-tools xserver-xorg-input-wacom

sudo apt-get purge wacom-tools xserver-xorg-input-wacom

Okay now you need to add the kernel headers for your kernel. Most people will just do

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic

to check your kernel version do:

uname -r

If during any time you got a notice to restart or if you have a little restart icon in the top right system try (looks kinda like a blue recycle icon) then by goodness restart. If you are not sure, then go ahead and restart just to be safe. The reason is if you update to a newer kernel, then the module won't work on restart as the module is compiled for a specific kernel.

Okay now we get to the good stuff....

tar xjvf linuxwacom-0.8.1-6.tar.bz2

cd linuxwacom-0.8.1-6

./configure --enable-wacom --prefix=/usr

make

sudo make install

If this returns an error saying "wacom" is not loaded, Do not worry. Just means you've never installed wacom before. Continue...


Now do :

sudo cp ./src/2.6.27/wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko

You will now need to restart !!!. This is necessary on Intrepid!

Okay that installed it, but now we need to configure our xserver....

Okay I will try to make this as simple as possible. Unfortunately for some reason the stylus and touch events do not go by the same event number every time so we have to go another way...
first of all If you have made any changes to
/etc/X11/xorg.conf concerning wacom delete all those changes Unless you have followed this tutorial before and know what you are doing. (make sure to also remove wacom references in the server layout section!)

Also do:

gedit ~/.xinitrc

and delete any line with "xsetwacom" at the beginning Unless you know why it is there. This will make it easier to calibrate. Save that then restart.

If when you do the command the file is blank, do not worry. Just close out of gedit and continue on.

After you restart the stylus and touch should work. If it does not, restart again. It took me like three times before it kicked in. Don't ask me why...
It should move it, though probably very uncalibrated. Make sure you cover the entire screen to see if it moves.
If it does not move then post the results of

./configure --enable-wacom --prefix=/usr

make

sudo make install

sudo rmmod wacom

sudo modprobe wacom

and also post the contents of xorg.conf (/etc/X11/xorg.conf)

If you have got this far good!

Open up a terminal

gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf &

(leave the terminal open...)

In the text editor add the following lines under the Synaptic InputDevice Section (check the bottom of this post for my xorg.conf to see what I mean....)

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "stylus"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "USB" "on"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:0b.1-usb-0:2.3:1.0-event-mouse"
Option "Button2" "3" # make side-switch a right button
Option "TopX" "225"
Option "TopY" "225"
Option "BottomX" "26300"
Option "BottomY" "16375"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "touch"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Type" "touch"
Option "USB" "on"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:0b.1-usb-0:2.3:1.1-event-"
Option "TopX" "200"
Option "TopY" "225"
Option "BottomX" "4000"
Option "BottomY" "3875"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "eraser"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:0b.1-usb-0:2.3:1.0-event-mouse"
Option "USB" "on"
EndSection

Now Find the part that says 'Section "ServerLayout"'

In there add:

Inputdevice "stylus"	"SendCoreEvents"
Inputdevice "touch"	"SendCoreEvents"
Inputdevice "eraser"	"SendCoreEvents"

Now we need to fix the synaptic touch pad part. Since it has the word "touch" in it it is wrongly detected.
find the part that says:

	Identifier	"Synaptics Touchpad"

and change it to

	Identifier	"Synaptics Pad"

then in the server layout section also change it****

if this is all confusing, you can download my xorg.conf to look at. It is at the bottom of this post. Do not use any other xorg.conf of mine uploaded on any other thread or post as it is probably old.
note: if you are on another tablet (not a tx2000 series) it would not be wise to just paste my xorg into yours. It will probably not work. In fact it will probably break stuff
If you have the tx2000 if you just renamed it to xorg.conf and pasted it over yours, it would probably work, but I don't suggest doing it.

Now Maximize the termial....
now in the termial type :

reset

dmesg | grep Wacom

there should be two lines similar to this:

[ 45.460644] input: Wacom ISDv4 93 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.1/usb2/2-2/2-2.3/2-2.3:1.0/input/input9
[ 45.478030] input: Wacom ISDv4 93 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.1/usb2/2-2/2-2.3/2-2.3:1.1/input/input10

now do:

ls -l /dev/input/by-path

That should give you something similar to:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-07-27 12:07 pci-0000:00:0b.1-usb-0:2.3:1.0-event-mouse -> ../event9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-07-27 12:07 pci-0000:00:0b.1-usb-0:2.3:1.0-mouse -> ../mouse1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-07-27 12:07 pci-0000:00:0b.1-usb-0:2.3:1.1- -> ../mouse2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-07-27 12:07 pci-0000:00:0b.1-usb-0:2.3:1.1-event- -> ../event10
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-07-27 12:07 platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd -> ../event1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-07-27 12:07 platform-i8042-serio-1-event-mouse -> ../event11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-07-27 12:07 platform-i8042-serio-1-mouse -> ../mouse3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-07-27 12:07 platform-pcspkr-event-spkr -> ../event2

Now find the file that matches the output of dmesg i.e:

input9 (from dmesg) matches with event9 (in the ls command) So The File

pci-0000:00:0b.1-usb-0:2.3:1.0-event-mouse

is one that we need.

next input10 (from dmesg) matches with event10 (in the ls command) So The File

pci-0000:00:0b.1-usb-0:2.3:1.1-event-

is the other we need.

Now just amend your xorg.conf with those two names that you just got. The one ending with "mouse" should be in the stylus and eraser sections
and the one ending in "event-" should be in the touch section.
In theory since we have the same basic laptops these files should be the same as mine but you need to check....
If you have anything other than a tx2000 it probably will be different.

And that should be it.
Press Ctrl + Alt + Backspace to restart the xserver.

Login and we will now calibrate.

Just open up a terminal and do:

wacomcpl

A gui!!!! everything you will probably ever need to do with wacom is here. Just read the buttons

To make the wacomcpl settings stay after you reboot you need to:

chmod +x ~/.xinitrc

Then go to System->Preferences->Session

click on add and for the command write "~/.xinitrc" (without the quotes) title it whatever.....

This will only work for the user though. So before you log in it is still uncalibrated.

So to make it system wide (if that is what you want) here is a short how-to:

First do:

rm ~.xinitrc

Now go into wacomcpl and make it how you want it. (calibrate included)

Now open up .xinitrc and xorg.conf:

gedit ~/.xinitrc & gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

now you just transfer the stuff over to the xorg.conf.

For example the line in my .xinitrc is:

xsetwacom set touch bottomy "3951"

if you open up a terminal you can use xsetwacom to figure out how to translate it to the xorg.conf.

so what you would do for the line above is:

xsetwacom -x get touch bottomy

the x stands for xconf.. get obviously gives you the value.

that command outputs

Option "BottomY" "3951"

which I would put in my xorg.conf under the touch section.

Here is another short example.

.xinitrc:

xsetwacom set stylus Button3 "Button 3"

command:

xsetwacom -x get stylus button3

part to put in xorg.conf

Option "Button3" "BUTTON 3"

It will work that worked for me. on intrepid

[manu7irl]

i observed something strange when i plugged my headphone it actually didn't turn the speakers off... If there's any one that observes this too?

[martinjochimsen]

My laptop is doing the same thing. I have to unplug and then plug them in(?) (english is not my first language) to turn off the speakers. The same thing happend for me in 8.04. I haven't yet found out why!!!

Martin

[tC_Crazy]

Yup, same thing here. If I take them out and plug them back in that usually turns the speakers off. And another thing, it tends to freeze on startup on "starting powernowd." If I uninstall powernowd, will I lose cpu scaling?