ketek 90 - here with me

I have recently got my new travelmate c200, bought from a friend. It’s have a windows xp tablet edition as default operating system. Because i’m using linux more often than windows, so i want to install linux to this tablet pc. After searched on google, i found some useful resources about installing linux on tablet pc, so i download ubuntu linux 8.04 Hardy Heron, and install it. You can download it here.

I burn it to cd, boot from the cd. The installation is easy (this is my 1st time installing ubuntu).

Partition
Here is my partition table:
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9e5d9e5d

In Windows XP I have 2 drive (c: and d:) so i delete the partition in drive d: (36Gb) and make a new partition from it. I Use 20Gb for FAT32 because i want to use this partition on both linux and windows (e.g for music, document, etc). Then 8Gb mount as root, 7Gb mount in /home and the rest for linux swap.

Keyboard
For keyboard layout i choose US-International with dead keys, because i need to use international character. For virtual keyboard, i use “onboard”. Search and install it from
System -> Administration -> Synaptic package manager.
Just like the to rotate the display, i add it to the panel, so just need a click to show the virtual keyboard.

Boot Loader
Grub finds the win xp partition automatically. After the installation, it will reboot, remove the cd and reboot. Now you can see Grub upon boot up.

Your new Desktop
Software update will ask you to update, update it. (I’m now finding ubunty very interesting), then the hardware drivers will also ask you to install the nvidia accelerated graphics driver. Install it and then use compiz as desktop manager.
System -> preferences -> Appearance -> Visual Desktop -> Normal
It works with blender, google earth and other application that use openGL. In my mandriva box with kde i need to kill compiz first so that i can run blender etc.

Wireless
The wireless just work without any configuration, but the wireless-LED is not turning on. Add this line on your /etc/modprobe.conf
options ipw2200 led=1

Other device
Bluetooth and the LED works. DVD works, USB works.

Cpu frequency selector
I then add cpu frequency selector to the panel, but you can’t change the frequency before you change permissions with
sudo chmod +s /usr/bin/cpufreq-selector

Rotating the screen
xrandr works after add this line in device section on /etc/X11/xorg.confOption "RandRRotation" "on"And then i use a modified script from Arno Teigseth to rotate the display. Add it to the panel as custom application launcher. So i just need to click it to rotate the display. (I’ve try to bind it to the swiwel key, but it didn’t work. I am still finding how to get it works)

Stylus
Stylus works great after i add this to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "stylus"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Button1" "1"
Option "Button2" "3"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "eraser"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "cursor"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

And this line in “Server Layout” section
Inputdevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
Inputdevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
Inputdevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"


And that’s it, so here is the download links
xorg.conf and rotate.sh

Here is a great reference from Ubuntu Forums

Here some screenshots of my new beautiful ubuntu
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