[tlinux-users:07349] Re: m200 issues??? I'm pretty happy, room for improvements?

which distro are you running? And did you have to add software to get  
smcinit working? Did smcinit come precompiled for your distro? I am  
currently downloading the smcinit and will give some feedback about my  
process.
just the kind of reply I wanted by the way;)

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:31:10 +0200, Chris Debenham <[email protected]>  
wrote:

> Just a quick few things to add.
> If you use a recent wacom driver getting the right-mouse button working  
> is as simple as running "xsetwacom set stylus TPCButton 0"
>
> I've also got ir working fine using:
>
> smcinit
> modprobe ircomm-tty
> setserial /dev/ttyS1 port 0x3f8 uart 16550a autoconfig
> irattach /dev/ttyS1 -s
>
> Which puts it on ttyS1 so it doesn't get confused with the tablet
>
> Cheers
>   Chris
>
> Kristian Alvestad wrote:
>> What is your success rate? better than mine? I'd like to hear how you   
>> fixed it, whatever it is, maybe someone could gather this info for a   
>> webpage that could compliment the excellent guide on "dual elephants"  
>> (do  a google search)
>>  this probably is relevant for m200 and similar machines (m4, m300,   
>> others?). As far as I know, the issues are;
>>  *bluetooth built in needs initializing patch that will not be added to  
>> the  kernel ever due to code quality (I do not have built in bluetooth,  
>> is it  worth it, or even useable on suse for instance?
>> *sd reader does not have a working linux driver (it sould be really  
>> cool  if this slot supported mmc on linux, but that might be a hardware  
>> issue)
>> *dpms is buggy or non-functional (any workarounds?)
>> *irda is really hard to activate, I got an issue with the touchscreen   
>> using the serialport, and never got it working
>> *wacom needs special driver for right click to work (any compile or  
>> setup  tricks here that you know of?)
>>   I am really happy with my m200, besides the powersupply quitting for  
>> the  forth time or something (ah warranty;) bah, quality;(), I really  
>> do like  this computer with Linux. I am now running suse 10 on this  
>> baby with  touchscreen working through a sax2 setup (had to add "Option  
>> "ForceDevice"  "ISDV4"" to xorg.conf and "setserial /dev/ttyS0 port  
>> 0x338 autoconfigure"  to boot.local) and I added the wacom driver  
>> optimized for portege 3500 to  get right click function on the wacom  
>> pen (found an optimized driver on   
>> http://newsletter.toshiba-tro.de/main/index.html , look for install  
>> guides  or something).
>>   On suse 10, this is all I really had to do to get the computer  
>> working  like a charm. I activated suspend to ram through the  
>> powermanagement  module in yast, I tried using dpms for blanking of the  
>> screen (sax2  alternative), which now works partially (needs a f1 and  
>> f7 to resume from  blank screen;( ) Also ofcourse I installed the  
>> nvidia drivers through you  (do this, then you do not have to update  
>> the drivers with each update of  the kernel)
>>  Does anyone know a laptop which works better? I'd really like to know  
>> for  my next laptop:)
>>
>
>



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