ostebaronen.dk » Lenovo http://ostebaronen.dk write letters and shit, yo! Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:35:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc X60 Tablet and the new Xorg 1.6 http://ostebaronen.dk/x60-tablet-and-the-new-xorg-16/ http://ostebaronen.dk/x60-tablet-and-the-new-xorg-16/#comments Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:03:18 +0000 ostebaronen http://ostebaronen.dk/?p=102 Since last I wrote about the X60 Tablet and how to get it to work with Gentoo Linux a lot of things have happened. Some new versions of Xorg has come out. v86d for the framebuffering and uvesafb has been fixed so it is easier to install and get to work. I have switched to Arch Linux and so on.

I have discovered, with the new Xorg 1.6 and the newest Intel drivers for the graphics card the 3D performance have been upped slightly. But compared to the old i810 drivers, it is still not as good. Though a lot of new features as KVM and such have been implemented.

From my experience the Intel drivers are still a bit buggy. When I have them enabled the newest version does not allow me to rotate my screen as I could do easily before, now it just turns my screen off and I cannot go back and have to restart the computer. Pretty annoying.

The Digitizer works fine with the newest Xorg. You just have to use the development package instead of the stable, since Xorg went over to HAL and moving away from the static xorg.conf, though you still have to load the wacom module in your xorg.conf, and you can still use the Device sections as always. This can probably be done with a fdi file too, I have not investigated that yet though.

I am going to test out Xorg 1.6.1 soon, since it just came out and see if it helps out with the rotation issue.

EDIT:

It seems that everything works fine in Xorg 1.6.1, rotation of the screen, linuxwacom and so on, AWESOME!

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