Ubuntu on Eee PC T101MT

[Guzmanus]

How do you make the screen rotate? because with

xrandr -o right

the screen rotates but not the touchscreen, and it just messes with the orientation. Im using a freshly installed 11.10
Installing the egalax drivers didnt work either, as when i do

touchrotate right

it just rotates the screen, but not the touchscreen

[miegiel]

How do you make the screen rotate? because with

xrandr -o right

the screen rotates but not the touchscreen, and it just messes with the orientation. Im using a freshly installed 11.10
Installing the egalax drivers didnt work either, as when i do

it just rotates the screen, but not the touchscreen

From https://help.ubuntu.com/community/T101MT#Touch-Screen :

If your touch-screen does not work after this, run lsusb in the terminal. If there is a device named 0486:0186 ASUS Computers, Inc. then you have a second generation tablet where Asus decided to change the hardware around. There is a single touch workaround below. This workaround however, isn't fully compatible with the touch-rotate scripts (installed above) as it doesn't rotate the touch orientation ONLY the screen. A kernel patch is in the works.

[Slartius]

Well I recently posted about no problems with upgrade to 11.10. It seems I have spoken too soon. I have problems with at-spi daemon (florence virtual keyboard not hiding at all) and with suspend and hibernate, which also do not work. As far as I checked everything should be fixed but it still does not work for me. Am I the only one?

[ianni67]

I was actually asking for more information about upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10. Anyone upgraded through the upgrade procedure? I'm quite frightened.

[Kerilk]

I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 without much trouble.

I had to install the luminosity fix from plippo.
For correct rotation of the touchscreen I modified the touchrotate script to use the Coordinate Transformation Matrix (edit : noticed crazyness003 proposed a similar solution 3 pages ago) :

#!/bin/sh

if [ $# -eq 1 ];
then OUTPUT=auto
     INPUTDEV=auto
     ROTATION=$1
elif [ $# -eq 3 ];
then OUTPUT=$1
     INPUTDEV=$2
     ROTATION=$3
else echo "Usage: touchrotate [output inputdevice] left|right|inverted|normal|toleft|toright|topdown|current"
     exit 1
fi

if [ $OUTPUT = auto ];
then LV=$(xrandr|grep -i 'LVDS')
     OUTPUT=$(echo $LV | sed 's/ connected.*//')
fi

if [ $INPUTDEV = auto ];
then EG=$(xinput list|grep -E 'eGalax|MultiTouch')
     INPUTDEV=$(echo $EG | grep -o 'id=[^ ]*' | sed 's/id=//')
fi

ORIGROTATION="$ROTATION"

case $ROTATION in
    toleft|toright|topdown|current)
       XR=$(xrandr)
       if echo $XR | grep -q "$OUTPUT connected [^ ]* left";
       then
           case $ROTATION in
                toleft) ROTATION=inverted ;; 
                toright) ROTATION=normal ;; 
                topdown) ROTATION=right ;; 
		current) ROTATION=left ;;
           esac
       elif echo $XR | grep -q "$OUTPUT connected [^ ]* right";
       then
           case $ROTATION in
                toleft) ROTATION=normal ;; 
                toright) ROTATION=inverted ;; 
                topdown) ROTATION=left ;; 
		current) ROTATION=right ;;
           esac
       elif echo $XR | grep -q "$OUTPUT connected [^ ]* inverted";
       then
           case $ROTATION in
                toleft) ROTATION=right ;; 
                toright) ROTATION=left ;; 
                topdown) ROTATION=normal ;; 
		current) ROTATION=inverted ;;
           esac
       else
           case $ROTATION in
                toleft) ROTATION=left ;; 
                toright) ROTATION=right ;; 
                topdown) ROTATION=inverted ;; 
		current) ROTATION=normal ;;
           esac
       fi
esac

case $ROTATION in
    normal) xinput set-float-prop $INPUTDEV "Coordinate Transformation Matrix"  1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1;;
    left) xinput set-float-prop $INPUTDEV "Coordinate Transformation Matrix"  0 -1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1;;
    right) xinput set-float-prop $INPUTDEV "Coordinate Transformation Matrix"  0 1 0 -1 0 1 0 0 1;;
    inverted) xinput set-float-prop $INPUTDEV "Coordinate Transformation Matrix" -1 0 1 0 -1 1 0 0 1;;
    *) echo "Unknown option"; exit 1;;
esac

if [ $ORIGROTATION != current ];
then
       xrandr --output $OUTPUT --rotate $ROTATION
fi

Multitouch (dualtouch in fact) seems to be working as mtview records two simultaneous touches. Nonetheless, when touching a part of the desktop with a finger and adding a close other finger, the touch screen stops responding, and

eGalax Inc. USB TouchController: reallocated 4 touches

is printed in the Xorg.0.log . Any idea of what might be causing that?

[OlivierK]

Hello everybody

I've used my T101 for about 16 months and through all Ubuntu versions from 10.04 to present. Update to Oneiric was yesterday, and everything seems fine but one (quite big) snag: my computer won't go to sleep or hibernate anymore!

When I try to suspend or hibernate, network shuts, then restart, and nothin else happens, either in plugged or battery mode. I've looked on Oneiric bug list, but couldn't find anything related to this precise problem except for one message above this one.

Any idea about what I should do to get back the sleep & hibernate functions all right ?

[Slartius]

Hello everybody

I've used my T101 for about 16 months and through all Ubuntu versions from 10.04 to present. Update to Oneiric was yesterday, and everything seems fine but one (quite big) snag: my computer won't go to sleep or hibernate anymore!

When I try to suspend or hibernate, network shuts, then restart, and nothin else happens, either in plugged or battery mode. I've looked on Oneiric bug list, but couldn't find anything related to this precise problem except for one message above this one.

Any idea about what I should do to get back the sleep & hibernate functions all right ?

As I posted above, everything but the at-spi daemon (affects florence virtual keyboard auto hide functionality) and hibernate and suspend works as it should. I was doing quite a lot of surfing and I found bug reports for at-spi daemon (bug 810721) and for suspend and hibernate problems (bug 854624, there are different reports for this bug, from not suspending to suspending when it shouldn't, so I don't know if it is the right one), and they all say that it is fixed, but it still does not work for me. I will probably wait for a while and if no solution is present I will revert to Natty.

[miegiel]

As I posted above, everything but the at-spi daemon (affects florence virtual keyboard auto hide functionality) and hibernate and suspend works as it should. I was doing quite a lot of surfing and I found bug reports for at-spi daemon (bug 810721) and for suspend and hibernate problems (bug 854624, there are different reports for this bug, from not suspending to suspending when it shouldn't, so I don't know if it is the right one), and they all say that it is fixed, but it still does not work for me. I will probably wait for a while and if no solution is present I will revert to Natty.

Suspend works for me in both a clean ubuntu 11.10 and a xubuntu 11.10 upgraded from 11.04. I rarely hibernate and don't know if it works.

Have you tried a fresh ubuntu install instead of upgrading? Sometimes it helps.

[Slartius]

Suspend works for me in both a clean ubuntu 11.10 and a xubuntu 11.10 upgraded from 11.04. I rarely hibernate and don't know if it works.

Have you tried a fresh ubuntu install instead of upgrading? Sometimes it helps.

Not yet, I was hoping to avoid fresh install but will probably try it today. If it doesn't work I will probably revert back to Natty.

[Slartius]

Just did a fresh install and suspend works while hibernate doesn't (I will have to check if everything is OK with swap). The at-spi daemon still doesn't work, but now also the rotate does not work for me in particular, when I press the rotate button, the acpi_listen does not report anything. When I press the shutdown button acpi_listen registers that. Does anybody know if I have to install some packages from plippos repository and where to get them for 11.10 or the source to compile them. Thanks.