[tlinux-users:07350] Re: m200 issues??? I'm pretty happy, room for improvements?

I'm running ubuntu at the moment (but it worked under debian as well)
The smcinit I'm using is self-compiled.

Kristian Alvestad wrote:
> 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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