HOWTO: Install Hardy (8.04.1) on HP tx2500

[gali98]

Okay got it!

run these two commands and you should be set (as long as running that command works, and it should!)

sudo update-rc.d -f hotkey-setup remove

sudo update-rc.d hotkey-setup start 99 6 5 4 3 2 1 .

(don't forget the period at the end!)
It worked for me after restarting...
Hope it works for you!
Kory

[harak]

It works. the DVD button starts totem. xev recognizes the refresh button!

You are great!

[gali98]

Well I try!
Glad to hear it...
I found that after hours of searching. I had killed my keyboard, and all the keys were messing up. I got lucky and ran the right command, then worked from there.
I guess thats how all the cool stuff is found, by breaking it first
Kory

[BaronVonJimmy]

have you tried this to get rotate screen and also change mouse position. The mouse position is not handled by fglrx. wacom is the right one.
xrandr -o left
xsetwacom set stylus ROTATE "CCW"
xsetwacom set eraser ROTATE "CCW"
xsetwacom set Touch ROTATE "CCW"

To get everything back to normal:

xrandr -o normal
xsetwacom set stylus ROTATE "NONE"
xsetwacom set eraser ROTATE "NONE"
xsetwacom set Touch ROTATE "NONE"

@BaronVonJimmy

Also I haven't uninstalled the open source radeon driver. Doesn't seem to conflict fglrx. rotation with compiz works fine. May be I should try using git version. I have problems with compiz when I use graphics from remote servers.
Thanks for the tip!

Yep. Those the commands I'm using.

Under 'radeon' everything seems to work fine, apart from the usual lack of 3D accelleration.

Under 'fglrx' without compiz, whenever my screen orientation is not 'normal', ie. after xrandr -o, my mouse cursor (not the position, but the actual pointer on screen) is not rotated. When I click, it's as though it's horribly uncalibrated. This happens with mice and the touchpad too, not just my tablet, so I'm presuming it's something to do with the display driver.

And Under 'fglrx' with compiz, I get the same problem, but additionally the screen completely stops refreshing, except for the mouse pointer, after a rotate.

These last two may be down to my xorg.conf file, which is rather minimal apart from the Wacom entries and 'fglrx' or 'radeon' as necessary. I'll look into the 3D drivers again at some point, though today I'll have a go with the screen media buttons.

[marranzano]

...
run these two commands and you should be set (as long as running that command works, and it should!)

sudo update-rc.d -f hotkey-setup remove

sudo update-rc.d hotkey-setup start 99 6 5 4 3 2 1 .
...

thanx Kory, worked for me too...

any idea for the other two keys on the monitor?

how do i get the remote to work?

thanx

[harak]

BaronVonJimmy,
I remember i had similar problem but not with the mice. I will have to check it after I uninstall readeon (soon).

The screen refresh problem was there but it was random. So I installed radeon along with fglrx. The problem seems solved. Though now I dont know which driver is actually working or if both are working.

You may want to try it!

*EDIT*
I do have 3d working alond with xrandr.

[harak]

BaronVonJimmy

I checked even without radeon. It works ok for me. There must be someway to debug your case (I am no expert!).

I am attaching my xorg.conf for you to compare to start with.

[harak]

*EDIT*

My bad!

It does not work under compiz without radeon! I did not realize i was working with Metacity. The mice doesn't even respond for me!

[harak]

BaronVonJimmy
If you still want to run fglrx and donot mind using metacity when you have your screen rotated the following will work

xrandr -o left
metacity --replace&
xsetwacom set stylus ROTATE "CCW"
xsetwacom set eraser ROTATE "CCW"
xsetwacom set Touch ROTATE "CCW"

xrandr -o normal
compiz --replace&
xsetwacom set stylus ROTATE "NONE"
xsetwacom set eraser ROTATE "NONE"
xsetwacom set Touch ROTATE "NONE"

This doesn't solve the real problem. but you can use the compositing when you are in normal mode and no compositing when rotated. I never found any use for compositing in the rotated mode.

Have you installed the git version, by the way?

[laurentp]

Hi everyone,

first of all I'm so happy to be freed from Vista that came preloaded with this machine, you couln'd imagine... So thank you all. But right now I'm having some problems with my tx2524ca... The laptop randomly and completely freezes ( can't hit ctrl-alt-backspace, ctrl-alt-delete and have to remove power). Sometimes the caps-lock key flash when it's frozen. I think I've tracen down the problem but I'm not sure. My wireless disconnect/reconnect several times before the crash so it may be related to some issues that were reported before. It's difficult to isolate the crash because it happens kind of rarely... Here is some maybe pertinent output that I could find :
in my kernel log

Nov  6 17:07:48 larrylaptop-Intrepid kernel: [ 3556.247495] hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #0. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj.
Nov  6 17:08:15 larrylaptop-Intrepid kernel: [ 3582.924901] usb 4-1: reset low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3

the second line is repeated a lot of times. My usb mouse was repeatedly flashing also. And in the syslog :

ov  6 22:15:07 larrylaptop-Intrepid avahi-daemon[4961]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth1.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.101.
Nov  6 22:15:07 larrylaptop-Intrepid avahi-daemon[4961]: New relevant interface eth1.IPv4 for mDNS.
Nov  6 22:15:07 larrylaptop-Intrepid avahi-daemon[4961]: Registering new address record for 192.168.1.101 on eth1.IPv4.
Nov  6 22:15:08 larrylaptop-Intrepid NetworkManager: <info>  (eth1): device state change: 7 -> 8 
Nov  6 22:15:08 larrylaptop-Intrepid NetworkManager: <debug> [1226027708.130412] periodic_update(): Roamed from BSSID 00:0F:66:BF:16:C1 (johnny) to (none) ((none)) 
Nov  6 22:15:08 larrylaptop-Intrepid NetworkManager: <info>  Policy set 'Auto johnny' (eth1) as default for routing and DNS. 
Nov  6 22:15:08 larrylaptop-Intrepid NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth1) successful, device activated. 
Nov  6 22:15:08 larrylaptop-Intrepid NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth1) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) complete. 
Nov  6 22:15:10 larrylaptop-Intrepid ntpdate[11403]: adjust time server 91.189.94.4 offset -0.030000 sec
Nov  6 22:16:38 larrylaptop-Intrepid NetworkManager: <debug> [1226027798.195557] periodic_update(): Roamed from BSSID (none) ((none)) to 00:0F:66:BF:16:C1 (johnny) 
Nov  6 22:16:39 larrylaptop-Intrepid NetworkManager: <info>  (eth1): supplicant connection state change: 7 -> 3 
Nov  6 22:16:39 larrylaptop-Intrepid NetworkManager: <info>  (eth1): supplicant connection state change: 3 -> 0 
Nov  6 22:16:44 larrylaptop-Intrepid NetworkManager: <debug> [1226027804.198870] periodic_update(): Roamed from BSSID 00:0F:66:BF:16:C1 (johnny) to (none) ((none)) 
Nov  6 22:16:44 larrylaptop-Intrepid NetworkManager: <info>  (eth1): supplicant connection state change: 0 -> 2 
Nov  6 22:16:46 larrylaptop-Intrepid kernel: [22094.784647] usb 4-1: reset low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
Nov  6 22:16:48 larrylaptop-Intrepid NetworkManager: <info>  (eth1): supplicant connection state change: 2 -> 0 
Nov  6 22:16:50 larrylaptop-Intrepid NetworkManager: <info>  (eth1): supplicant connection state change: 0 -> 2

with a lot of things before that I won't put to expand uselessly. Hopefully it can be fixed and I will try to make work my touchscreen that for some reasons just don't work with all that have been said in this thread. I can put more detailed logs if you want. Maybe I sould fill a bug report but I would like to know the problem more before. Sorry for the big message,

Laurent