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Re: [trinity-users] Latest on Linux on tablets with (please Lord) Trinity?

From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 10:37:25 +0100
Am Samstag, 20. Januar 2018 schrieb Thierry de Coulon:
> Hello all,
> 
> Reviving this thread because I think I found the "perfect" Linux/TDE 2 in 1.
> 
> I don't like touchpads and the Surface Pro 2's was driving me mad, so I 
> searched for a 2 in 1 with a track point or similar, and found the Toshiba 
> z20t (it does have a touchpad too, if you like).
> 
> The model I got (for �300 on ebay) is the Z20t-B-113. As far as I can say 
> everything works out of the box: Touchscreen, stylus, keyboard (except the FN 
> special keys), touchpad (which I deactivated), track point, suspend and 
> hibernate (from tde powersave menu).
> 
> The machine uses an Atmel touchscreen (that can be controled with xrandr) and 
> a Wacom pen digitizer (which can be controled with xsetwacom).
> 
> I have not tried again to set up palm rejection, I find better to switch off 
> the touchscreen when I need to write, so I wrote a tcl/tk applet to do this 
> with xinput.
> 
> To my surprise xinput-calibration works in portrait mode on this machine (it 
> does not on my thinkpad). Pen precision is not always perfect but globaly I 
> can live with it.
> 
> There remain two small problems I'm working on:
> - I get error messages about loading the iwlwifi modules (although wifi is 
> working)
> - when I rotate the screen (xrandr on "Atmel, ID 10) and the pen digitizer 
> (xsetwacom on Wacom ISDv4 12C Pen stylus, ID 11) the touchpad/point stick 
> pointer does not rotate (would be AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint Touchpad / STick 
> with IDs 14 and 15).
> 
> xinput lets me disable/enable but not rotate
> xrandr works only on the screens
> xsetwacom only works on Wacom devices 
> 
> Any idea how I could rotate the pointing device? Not so important because the 
> stylus works but...
> 
> The keyboard is OK, the Tablet is light and nice, the digitizer is good, TDE 
> works great and the machine has a second battery in the keyboard, so after 
> setting up everything since last evening I still have 47% (given as more than 
> 10 hours) of energy (under lInux).
> 
> Have a nice day,
> 
> Thierry
> 
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This is from my RPi with touchscreen, it rotates the input device with a transformation matrix, so might be useful to you:

# Touchscreen Rotation am RPi:
# 90 Grad:
#xinput --set-prop 'FT5406 memory based driver' 'Coordinate Transformation Matrix'  0 1 0 -1 0 1 0 0 1
# 180 Grad:
xinput --set-prop 'FT5406 memory based driver' 'Coordinate Transformation Matrix'  -1 0 1 0 -1 1 0 0 1

Nik


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