Lenovo Ideapad S10-3t

[Subsanek]

Please tell me how to get wi-fi and touch screen?
I can not = (

[GustoEater]

I went back to Ubuntu and installed the 10.10 Alpha, then updated the system (which installed the 2.6.35 kernel) and touchscreen is working great. Then I installed the broadcom drivers for wireless and that's working great.

I also set up burg as the bootloader, I was sick of the grub text when I turn on the netbook.

The only things I need now are right-click and click-and-drag working on the touchpad and the Fn keys working for volume, brightness, etc.

10.10 is fantastic...much faster than Windows 7. Glad I came back to Ubuntu!!

[nix.peter]

How did you install broadcom driver?

Edit: And how did you install 10.10? I cant get into the live environment, it throws some error at me.

[GustoEater]

How did you install broadcom driver?

Edit: And how did you install 10.10? I cant get into the live environment, it throws some error at me.

I had trouble with 10.10 once, but re-downloaded it and put it on an SD card, it installed fine. You can also update 10.04 to 10.10 with "update-manager -d" I think.

Once you've updated 10.10 (to give you the 2.6.35 kernel), you'll get a hardware driver icon in the panel, just click on that and it will install the broadcom driver (you just have to accept the fact that it's not open source). Make sure you have an ethernet connection to the internet otherwise you won't be able to download it.

You have to update the kernel (just through Update Manager) first, otherwise the broadcom drivers won't work for the new kernel.

[nix.peter]

I actually got 10.10 to run by alternate install and i absolutely hated it lol. The unity bar is way too glitchy for my taste right now.

I might try to reinstall to see if maybe I had a bad install, but like i said earlier, when 10.10 gets more finalized im sure it will be much better.

[Skaarg]

I tried upgrading from Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 to 10.10 Alpha 1 and it installed, but when it boots it loads grub where I see it has Ubuntu with kernel 2.6.35, but after selecting it my screen flashes on and off a few times and then turns off. I tried pressing ctrl+alt+f1 to see if I'd get any terminal output, but nothing seems to change anything.

What's weird is there's still the option to boot with Kernel 2.6.32-22 which boots, but the touch screen doesn't work.

Should I maybe try doing a clean install? I haven't been saving anything to my Ubuntu partition yet since it wasn't fully working yet.

[nix.peter]

Im going to wait for Alpha 2 and hopefully it'll be smoother. A fresh install is best however were dealing with new hardware and software thats not official yet.

[nnutter]

Here is what I did to get 2.6.35 installed with Wi-Fi working.

Pros of 2.6.35:

• touch!

Cons:

• suspend/resume breaks
• "physical" touchpad buttons don't work (but taps still do)

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kernel-ppa/ppa
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install linux-generic-lts-backport-maverick linux-headers-generic-lts-backport-maverick

Get the latest deb for bcmwl-kernel-source from Maverick as it contains fixes for the failed building and missing files. Then install it either by double clicking on it to launch gdebi or use the command line:

sudo dpkg -i bcmwl-kernel-source_5.60.48.36+bdcom-0ubuntu5_i386.deb

Reboot and try tapping on the screen when you get to the login window. We should probably open a bug report for the suspend/resume problem but I don't know what information to collect for them.

[Skaarg]

I did a clean install of 10.10 Alpha 1 and updated to have the 2.6.35-5 kernel, and touch is working perfect for me, but whenever I try opening the applications window (uses file browser) it locks up after loading everything, making it impossible for me to launch any programs especially since for some reason alt+F2 doesn't bring up run prompt. Is anybody else having this problem and even better have a solution for this?

[xanadu1988]

Okay so I got rotation working by editing some random script for a HP laptop. I'm pretty sure this requires the kernel patch and if you don't notice you have to lookup the device id of your touchscreen!

xinput --list --short

to find that out

So just copy and paste this into a new file, change your device number and save it as rotator.sh wherever

#!/bin/sh
#
# enhanced rotate script, based on rafiyr's http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9133869&postcount=918
# and others (gathered on forums).
# Added rturn & lturn, to rotate screen left/right a quarter turn at a time (mainly
# because default hp-wmi module was not returning an 'event' for the 'Rotate' button on the bezel of my tx2z).
#
# This script can be 'attached' to a 'rotate' applet on the panel (w. 90° rotation).
#     with (for example) command: ...../rotator.sh rturn evdev touch wacom stylus
#
# Usage: rotator.sh   direction|position    method  device    [...]
#
# where:    direction = (lturn|l|rturn|r|right|left|normal|inverted)
#        method = (wacom|evdev)
#        device = (stylus|touch)
#

syntax_error=0

orientation=$1
shift

#
# Parse & get current orientation, and do integer conversion (in order to be
# able to (in/de)crement for each 90° rotation, also needed later for 'easier' comparison)
#
current_orientation="$(xrandr -q --verbose | grep 'connected' | egrep -o  '\) (normal|left|inverted|right) \(' | egrep -o '(normal|left|inverted|right)')"
case $current_orientation in
    normal)
        current_orientation=0
    ;;
    left)
        current_orientation=1
    ;;
    inverted)
        current_orientation=2
    ;;
    right)
        current_orientation=3
    ;;
esac

#
# Parse the orientation parameter & in case of 'rturn' and 'lturn', check the current
# orientation and make sure that the next value is within bound.
#
case $orientation in
    rturn | r)
        orientation=$((current_orientation-1))
        if [ $orientation -le "-1" ]; then
            orientation=3
        fi
    ;;
    lturn | l)
        orientation=$((current_orientation+1))
        if [ $orientation -ge "4" ]; then
            orientation=0
        fi
    ;;
    normal | 0)
        orientation=0
    ;;
    left | 1)
        orientation=1
    ;;
    inverted | 2)
        orientation=2
    ;;
    right | 3)
        orientation=3
    ;;
    * )
        syntax_error=1
    ;;
esac

#
# Check if new orientation is different from current one.
#
if [ $orientation -eq $current_orientation ]; then
    echo "Nothing to do."
    exit
fi

#
# repeat the device rotation/calibration for all devices passed as parameters
#

    # get and (crudely) parse method for errors
    method=evdev

    #
    # get and (crudely) parse device for errors
    # and convert device name to number
    # LENOVO S10-3t CHANGE ==> Hard Coded my device number to 11!!
    device=11

    if [ $syntax_error -ne 0 ]; then
        echo "Usage: `basename $0` Direction|Orientation   Method Device  [...]"
        echo "\tdirection = (lturn|l)|(rturn|r)|(right|3)|(left|1)|(normal|0|(inverted|2)"
        echo "\tMethod: (wacom|evdev)"
        echo "\tDevice: (stylus|touch)"
        exit 1
    fi

    #
    # Set rotation plane/geometry parameters, and if using "wacom"
    # method, also perform device/calibration rotation
    #
    swap=0
    invert_x=0
    invert_y=0

    real_topx=0
    real_topy=0
    real_bottomx=4020
    real_bottomy=4020

    case $orientation in
        0)
            swap=0
            invert_x=0
            invert_y=0
            topx=$real_topx
            topy=$real_topy
            bottomx=$real_bottomx
            bottomy=$real_bottomy
        ;;
        1)
            swap=1
            invert_x=1
            invert_y=0
            topx=$real_topx
            topy=$real_topy
            bottomx=$real_bottomy
            bottomy=$real_bottomx
        ;;
        2 )
            swap=0
            invert_x=1
            invert_y=1
            topx=$real_topx
            topy=$real_topy
            bottomx=$real_bottomx
            bottomy=$real_bottomy
        ;;
        3 )
            swap=1
            invert_x=0
            invert_y=1
            topx=$real_topx
            topy=$real_topy
            bottomx=$real_bottomy
            bottomy=$real_bottomx
        ;;
    esac

    #
    # If using "evdev" method, adjust the device (touch/calibration) accordingly
    #
    if [ $method = "evdev" ]; then
        xinput set-prop "$device" "Evdev Axes Swap" $swap
        xinput set-prop "$device" "Evdev Axes Swap" $swap
        xinput set-prop "$device" "Evdev Axis Inversion" $invert_x $invert_y
        xinput set-prop "$device" "Evdev Axis Calibration" $topx $bottomx $topy $bottomy
        if [ $orientation = 2 ]; then        
            xrandr -o inverted
        fi
        if [ $orientation = 0 ]; then
            xrandr -o normal
        fi
    fi

#

To run the script open up a terminal, go to the directory the script is stored in and type

sh rotator.sh inverted

and to put it back

sh rotator.sh normal

It works great on my s10-3t running 10.10 alpha 1... If someone wants to edit this script to get 90-degree rotations working feel free. I really have no need for it.