Screen switch for ubuntu 10.10 on portege m200

[Favux]

Please post both the output of xinput list and xsetwacom list in a terminal.

And your stylus has an eraser, but you do not have touch, correct?

[NoonienSoong97]

here is the list:

nooniensoong97@nooniensoong97-PORTEGE-M200:~$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Mouse id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Serial Wacom Tablet eraser id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Serial Wacom Tablet stylus id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Microsoft Microsoft Notebook Receiver v2.0 id=15 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Toshiba input device id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]

Yea the Toshiba that I have doesn't have the touch screen only the magnetic pen.

[NoonienSoong97]

Since inverted is a rotation of half what is the rotation for left and right?

[Favux]

So was there output from xsetwacom list? From your xinput list output the xsetwacom commands are correct with "Serial Wacom Tablet stylus" and "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser".

left = ccw
right = cw

What video chipset do you have?:

lspci | grep VGA

[NoonienSoong97]

nooniensoong97@nooniensoong97-PORTEGE-M200:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200 32M/64M] (rev a1)

[NoonienSoong97]

nooniensoong97@nooniensoong97-PORTEGE-M200:~$ xsetwacom list
Serial Wacom Tablet eraser ERASER
Serial Wacom Tablet stylus STYLUS

[NoonienSoong97]

Everything is working now. I have launchers setup for left, right, inverted, and none rotation. I might expand on it later with an app., but for now the launchers will do fine.

[Favux]

Great! Nice work.


Your xsetwacom list is good so you are on the wacom drivers. For more ideas the Rotation HOW TO might be helpful.

[NoonienSoong97]

Here is the final scripting for screen and device rotations for the Toshiba Portege M200:

#!/bin/sh

# Find the line in "xrandr -q --verbose" output that contains current screen orientation and "strip" out current orientation.

rotation="$(xrandr -q --verbose | grep 'connected' | egrep -o '\) (normal|left|inverted|right) \(' | egrep -o '(normal|left|inverted|right)')"

# Using current screen orientation proceed to rotate screen and input tools.

case "$rotation" in
normal)
# -rotate to left
xrandr -o left
xinput set "Microsoft Microsoft Notebook Receiver v2.0" rotate CCW
xinput set "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" rotate CCW
xsetwacom set "Serial Wacom Tablet stylus" rotate CCW
xsetwacom set "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" rotate CCW
;;
left)
# -rotate to left
xrandr -o left
xinput set "Microsoft Microsoft Notebook Receiver v2.0" rotate CCW
xinput set "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" rotate CCW
xsetwacom set "Serial Wacom Tablet stylus" rotate CCW
xsetwacom set "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" rotate CCW
;;
inverted)
# -rotate to left
xrandr -o left
xinput set "Microsoft Microsoft Notebook Receiver v2.0" rotate CCW
xinput set "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" rotate CCW
xsetwacom set "Serial Wacom Tablet stylus" rotate CCW
xsetwacom set "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" rotate CCW
;;
right)
# -rotate to left
xrandr -o left
xinput set "Microsoft Microsoft Notebook Receiver v2.0" rotate CCW
xinput set "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" rotate CCW
xsetwacom set "Serial Wacom Tablet stylus" rotate CCW
xsetwacom set "Serial Wacom Tablet eraser" rotate CCW
;;
esac

[Favux]

Hi NoonienSoong97,

Not quite sure I understand what you are doing. For whichever of the four screen orientations the screen is in you always want it to go to left handed Portrait orientation?