How to Rotate the Screen for a TX2000 Tablet PC

[knipp21]

Hi knipp21,

Well whatever, it doesn't look right. I removed the wacom entries that apply to an external graphics tablet and commented the others out. Notice touch isn't in there like it is in the TX2000 xorg.conf you downloaded.

Hopefully things aren't too different and the "RandRRotation" won't break anything.

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option "DontZap" "False"
EndSection

#Section "InputDevice"
#Driver "wacom"
#Identifier "stylus"
#Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" # USB ONLY?
#Option "Type" "stylus"
#Option "USB" "on" # USB ONLY
#EndSection

#Section "InputDevice"
#Driver "wacom"
#Identifier "eraser"
#Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom" # USB ONLY?
#Option "Type" "eraser"
#Option "USB" "on" # USB ONLY
#EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier "Configured Video Device"
	Driver		"nvidia"
	Option		"RandRRotation"  "on"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Configured Screen Device"
	DefaultDepth	24
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
#	InputDevice	"stylus"	"SendCoreEvents"
#	InputDevice	"eraser"	"SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

This is more what things should look like. Minus the touch entries which I didn't add since you are using HAL/.fdi. This one you can copy and paste in.

ok but before i do so..i copy this over everything right?

and why are there no touch entries? will touch still work?

[Favux]

Hi knipp21,

Right clear everything out and replace it with this. The only difference is the rotation line and commenting out the wacom lines. So if it breaks X it's the rotation line. To restore things just reverse the copy (cp) line at a command line (which you should be able to reach) like:

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[knipp21]

ok i did that..now i need to redo the launcher? i say that cause when it wasnt working i just deleted it

[Favux]

Yep, going to need to redo it and makes sure it points to the rotation script you chose. You rebooted correct?

[knipp21]

just finished and it works!

[Favux]

Hi knipp21,

Outstanding! Nice job. I think this is the first time I've worked with Mint.

[knipp21]

Hi knipp21,

Outstanding! Nice job. I think this is the first time I've worked with Mint.

cool, i like it, it come prebuilt with flash and all that stuff in it...it just seemed a little less buggy..btw trying to set the q key doesnt go with your how-to because the file you gave me had nothing commented out like it says..and when i ran xev and pressed the key nothin happened

[knipp21]

not sure if this works for everyone but you can set the Q key to rotate your screen w/o all the comand line...go to system->preferences->keyboard shortcuts...then choose add and basically create a launcher...for command just set it wherever your .name.sh is at...maybe this helps maybe it doesnt..just offering some info i found

[Favux]

Hi knipp21,

That's useful info. So that works even though xev wasn't returning a key code? Things have changed once again with Jaunty/Mint 7.

What you were asking about earlier. You could probably use the TX2000 xorg.conf's keyboard section and add it yours to get what I was talking about. But it doesn't look like you need to anymore. From what you are saying sounds like Jaunty/Mint 7 has fixed the bug and now HAL doesn't break single key key bindings!

If you can give me a little more detail and someone else can verify it I could add it to the HOW TO.

[knipp21]

well it was working..but it stopped...when i go through and reset it, it works again..it stops after i have logged out or restart my comp..i just set it to alt+right arrow and it works fine for me...but if the above info help please let me know ...umm one thing did happen today though...when i restart my computer, screen is calibrated, but when i hibernate it by closing screen, it loses calibration..any thoughts?


update:i have Q key set right now and is working...will continue to toy with it..if anyone figures it out just post it please so Favux can get this to the how-to

update 2: ok so this is different...i set it as my shortcut and it works...i restart and its still shown as the shortcut, but wont rotate screen..i dont know enough to persue this further so i will leave this to yall