How to Rotate the Screen for a TX2000 Tablet PC

[daulpavis]

OK

Re-ran the instillation. There must have been a problem before. The new drivers solved the touch problem in rotation mode.

Cheers.

[Favux]

Good!

[daulpavis]

Ok. I have discovered another problem. The laptop hangs and locks up with a black screen (back-light on) on suspend (either by closing lid or choosing from the menu) after a rotation using the auto rotate is performed.

I'm using Magick Rotation 0.4 with the newly installed wacom drivers.

It does not hang after a normal rotate.

If you disable or exit the auto-rotate application it still hangs.

[deddokatana]

thankyou for the wonderful script on how to rotate the display

slight problem though,

the mouse cursor doesnt invert when the display does! amusing, but makes life harder.

this is probably due to the differences in the laptop hardware revision, as show in lsinput. or just because im running 10.04

heres the lsinput readout:

/dev/input/event0
   bustype : BUS_HOST
   vendor  : 0x0
   product : 0x1
   version : 0
   name    : "Power Button"
   phys    : "PNP0C0C/button/input0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY

/dev/input/event1
   bustype : BUS_HOST
   vendor  : 0x0
   product : 0x3
   version : 0
   name    : "Sleep Button"
   phys    : "PNP0C0E/button/input0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY

/dev/input/event2
   bustype : BUS_HOST
   vendor  : 0x0
   product : 0x5
   version : 0
   name    : "Lid Switch"
   phys    : "PNP0C0D/button/input0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_SW

/dev/input/event3
   bustype : BUS_HOST
   vendor  : 0x0
   product : 0x1
   version : 0
   name    : "Power Button"
   phys    : "LNXPWRBN/button/input0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY

/dev/input/event4
   bustype : BUS_ADB
   vendor  : 0x1
   product : 0x1
   version : 256
   name    : "Macintosh mouse button emulation"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_REL

/dev/input/event5
   bustype : BUS_I8042
   vendor  : 0x1
   product : 0x1
   version : 43841
   name    : "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
   phys    : "isa0060/serio0/input0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_MSC EV_LED EV_REP

/dev/input/event6
   bustype : BUS_USB
   vendor  : 0x56a
   product : 0x93
   version : 1027
   name    : "Wacom ISDv4 93"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_ABS

/dev/input/event7
   bustype : BUS_USB
   vendor  : 0x56a
   product : 0x93
   version : 1027
   name    : "Wacom ISDv4 93"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_ABS

/dev/input/event8
   bustype : BUS_HOST
   vendor  : 0x0
   product : 0x6
   version : 0
   name    : "Video Bus"
   phys    : "LNXVIDEO/video/input0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY

/dev/input/event9
   bustype : BUS_USB
   vendor  : 0x64e
   product : 0xa104
   version : 256
   name    : "HP Webcam"
   phys    : "usb-0000:00:13.2-2/button"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY

/dev/input/event10
   bustype : BUS_I8042
   vendor  : 0x2
   product : 0x7
   version : 433
   name    : "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
   phys    : "isa0060/serio1/input0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_ABS

/dev/input/event11
   bustype : BUS_PCI
   vendor  : 0x10ec
   product : 0x268
   version : 1
   name    : "HDA Digital PCBeep"
   phys    : "card0/codec#0/beep0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_SND

im especially interested in code changes to the script as i might use it in a tablet pc control panel/preferences applet,as im a python beginner looking to contribute.

lovin ubuntu. peace.

[Favux]

Hi deddokatana,

From your product ID you seem to have a HP TX2000. Is this correct?

It looks like you have the default Lucid 0.8.4-4 wacom.ko because stylus and touch have the same name "Wacom ISDv4 93". This was a bug that was fixed. So probably the evdev driver is picking up touch which is why it isn't rotating with the stylus. To verify look at Xorg.0.log in /var/log. Copy it into gedit and search 'wacom'.

Let's see what:

xinput --list

shows us.

I have a TX2000/TX2500 xsetwacom script attached to the second post of the Bamboo P&T HOW TO thread, which let's you fine tune things.

The control panel thing sounds interesting. Love to see what you come up with.

[AndreasB123]

I have an HP 2710p Tablet PC, Wacom works out of the box (Ubuntu 10.04)


But rotation didn't work, I found this thread, downloaded Magick_Rotation_0.4.tar.gz, inserted hp-wmi to /etc/modules (and rebooted the system).

But it's still not working, I found out what's the problem, but not the reason:

/etc/devices/plattform/hp-wmi/tablet is always 1 (but it should be 0, because I'm not in tablet mode...)

After reboot it worked one time, but now its still 1... The Tablet don't rotate back...

Maybe somebody has an Idea why...

@Favux
Thank you for the good work!


Andreas

[Favux]

Hi AndreasB123,

That's a puzzler.

What happens to /etc/devices/plattform/hp-wmi/tablet when rotated? Is it still one?

When you rebooted was it 0 before rotation?

Does auto-rotation work in Windows?

Do you see hp-wmi in lsmod?:

lsmod

[AndreasB123]

Does auto-rotation work in Windows?

Yes it did... (And yes, the hp-wmi is loaded, I added it to /etc/modules)

When you rebooted was it 0 before rotation?

/etc/devices/plattform/hp-wmi/tablet is 0, I booted system before 10 minutes... (as I wrote in the first post, the problem is the driver, not your script...)

Now I rotate the screen... And...
/etc/devices/plattform/hp-wmi/tablet is 1, and your script worked as expected...


No I rotate the screen back, but the /etc/devices/plattform/hp-wmi/tablet is still 1....

But now, while I'm writing, it rotated back... 30s?

So I tested again, it's now 1 since 3 minutes, but the display is in normal mode, since 3 minutes...

Maybe I should install Windows again and test if it works there always, I tested it only 2 or 3 times, and then installed Ubuntu

Now, again, it rotated back... But it needs 5 minutes this time, that's to long for me, I have an Fujitsu Siements T4010 Tablet, there it takes 1 to 2 seconds to rotate...


Thank you for your replay, but the driver problem is still there...


Andreas

[Favux]

Hi Andreas,

If you look in Magick's Advanced Setup you'll see the "Information update interval" (the polling rate) is 500 milliseconds. So rotation should seem almost instantaneous, faster than your Fujitsu.

Maybe I should install Windows again and test if it works there always

I would, because you may be looking at a hardware problem. You at least want to eliminate that. Maybe a corroded contact or weak spring. I don't actually have a physical concept of how the swivel hinge switch works.

Once a hardware problem has been eliminated you could look into whether there is a problem with your bios/wmi or hp-wmi or the script/python libraries.

[Pericius]

(hp 2730p)
Got the auto magic rotation working and stylus and pressure and everything, but I cannot seem to get the rotate button to work. Anyone has this or 2710p or 2750p (i reckon they're similar)?