First try of universal Thinkpad laptop/tablet image - ICS 4.0.3

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StefanS

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Mar 4, 2012, 5:47:42 PM3/4/12
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Dear group,

I have created a new image not only for my beloved X41t, but i should also work on the X61t and maybe the x220t (WiFi doesn't seem to work on this).
It features the hdaps module from tp_smapi, so auto-rotation and tilt sensors games should work on the X61t now, too.

The image contains drivers for most components, so if your wifi/graphics/bluetooth/whatever doesn't work it's likely that it will not be so easy to get it to work.
Pinyin IME is also included, battery status is reported correctly always, etc. Full changelog will follow after some sleep :)

Magnet link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ab537845a97e9ddc0a24ab1093f4db6847764e9a
and the torrent file is attached as usual.

Looking forward for feedback :)

Stefan
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Brian Raker

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Woohoo!  Definitely trying this and will tell my boss to try it as well (he was disappointed in earlier x61 builds).

*dances*

-BR

Brian Raker

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From my X41t (1866-6SU), with thinkpad_universal_4.0.3-20120304:

Install config:

 - 30 second standby timer!  Sooo short!
 - Wifi network selection did not immediately come up with networks, tried to [SCAN] with no results.  Ended up having to [Add a Network] manually.  Only then did the rest of the networks show up.
 - Still comes up with "Complete action with com.android.provision.DefaultActivity or Setup Wizard" after Google account is set up.  (Went with DefaultActivity)

Post setup:

 - THANK YOU!  "Never Timeout" for display sleep!  In the past I set this to 30 minutes.
 - Voice search is still defunct, as it Google TTS.
 - Screen rotation works like it did in 20120225, as do the bezel buttons.

Everything else seems good!

I'm looking forward to reports from X61 and X220 users now!

With great thanks,

-Brian

kge420

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Mar 5, 2012, 9:36:03 AM3/5/12
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Brian, I am running build 20120225 on my X41t and it is very usable.
Better than the XP that was loaded. My questionis; Do you feel the
need to update or is there no real gain? I have been trying to find a
way to get the swype keyboard installed but keep hitting the 'your
screen size is not supported' warning. I have tried to change the DPI
settings in grub in order to fool the recognition process but still no
go. Other than that I am very happy with this OS.
Keith

Mohd Zainy Brahim

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mr stefan...
could build x41t image with broadcom 54g wireless driver....cause your last image works marvelous on acer aspire 3620 but only wireless not working
 
tq

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StefanS

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Hi,

as I wrote, this build contains all standard drivers. Did you try
adding a wireless network (doesn't need to exist) or switching it on
and off again?
Otherwise, Broadcom 54g is pretty generic, so you would at least need
to boot a recent linux (e.g. ubuntu) and check if the wifi works there
and what the name of the kernel module is.

Stefan

Mohd Zainy Brahim

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Mar 5, 2012, 11:47:24 AM3/5/12
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hi..
in linuxmint 12, it detected as b43 with missing firmware ucode5.fw

Miden_Kalurru

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I tried in a Acer Aspire 1410 and I have no wifi and no onscreen pointer. The trackpad acts as if it was a touchscreen. Audio and GPU acceleration work. I don't know if this information is of any use to you, but here you have it.

El diumenge 4 de març de 2012 23:47:42 UTC+1, StefanS va escriure:

StefanS

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Ok, I see. I wasn't considering b43 as a useful driver, and it needs proprietary firmware, too. But I included it and will update the build sometime soon.

Thanks for reporting it!

Stefan

StefanS

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I think you need to contact Swype or ask in their forum for this issue. Maybe they send you a special version for testing.

Stefan

Brian Raker

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I didn't notice much difference between 20120225 and 20120304.  I'm sure Stefan would love to have more people testing the latest and greatest; but if you're not the bleeding edge type, 20120225 seems to be just as stable and capable as 20120304.

-Brian

StefanS

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On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 01:02, Brian Raker <brian...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't notice much difference between 20120225 and 20120304.  I'm sure
> Stefan would love to have more people testing the latest and greatest; but
> if you're not the bleeding edge type, 20120225 seems to be just as stable
> and capable as 20120304.
There are some differences, like the inclusion of the PinYin IME, but
nothing huge.

Stefan

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Angel Ro driguez Cabrera

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Is posible touch screen

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yuuhhe

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Great job!
It works on my x61s!
WiFi is OK.
Camera not work.
Sound Sometimes noise.
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YAS

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I tried this on my X60, all seems to work except for the Wacom and
touch screen. Any fix?

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YAS

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I've tried it on my x60 (lower model than the x61) and all seems to
work fine except for the Wacom and touch screen :( is there anything
need to do to enable it?
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StefanS

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Mar 6, 2012, 4:40:53 PM3/6/12
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Yes.

tintar

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Mar 6, 2012, 6:16:03 PM3/6/12
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it's very nice, Stefan, thank you -

auto rotate works quickly and perfectly on x61t now.
everything else seems nominal too.

it even runs somewhat decently on my x31, ha ha (in VESA, of course.
although there looks like rv100 support in Mesa...)
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galu

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Mar 6, 2012, 6:39:10 PM3/6/12
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The previous build booted just fine on my ThinkPad X32 (Pentium M + Intel 2200BG wireless + "SoundMAX" + ATI Mobility Radeon 7000), the only thing that wasn't supported was the GPU (the OS runs in unaccelerated framebuffer mode and at 800x600 instead of 1024x768).
There is some Linux-related info on this gpu (rv100): http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ATI_Mobility_Radeon_7000 - it's not shader-based and definitely not OpenGL2.0 compatible, but it coped fairly well with Compiz ("radeon" X.org driver)... so I'd dare to ask if there is a chance that the RV100 (TP X31/X32) support could be added without much hassle?

Michael.

StefanS

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Mar 7, 2012, 3:59:45 AM3/7/12
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Hmm, I have enabled the radeon (rv100) mesa part, but I don't think it'll work. You can test it.
This new build also contains the b43 Broadcom WiFi drivers and firmware. Updated links here: http://stefanseidel.info/index.php?view=article&id=6

No clue about the wacom/touch screen on the x60, I would need a log file from right after bootup to see what's going on...

Stefan

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thanks for quick acknowledge

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YAS

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How would I get that? I'd be more than happy to.

On Mar 7, 12:59 am, StefanS <andr...@stefanseidel.info> wrote:
> Hmm, I have enabled the radeon (rv100) mesa part, but I don't think it'll
> work. You can test it.
> This new build also contains the b43 Broadcom WiFi drivers and firmware.
> Updated links here:http://stefanseidel.info/index.php?view=article&id=6
>
> No clue about the wacom/touch screen on the x60, I would need a log file
> from right after bootup to see what's going on...
>
> Stefan
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, March 7, 2012 12:39:10 AM UTC+1, galu wrote:
>
> > The previous build booted just fine on my ThinkPad X32 (Pentium M + Intel
> > 2200BG wireless + "SoundMAX" + ATI Mobility Radeon 7000), the only thing
> > that wasn't supported was the GPU (the OS runs in unaccelerated framebuffer
> > mode and at 800x600 instead of 1024x768).
> > There is some Linux-related info on this gpu (rv100):
> >http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ATI_Mobility_Radeon_7000- it's not

StefanS

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Immediately after Android has started, open the Terminal Emulator, type
logwrapper dmesg
and press Enter and then type
logwrapper lspci
and press Enter. Then you open the "CatLog" application and in the menu there is an option to send the log (as attachment please) via Gmail or other options.

You can also try
modprobe wacom
in the Terminal and see if your touchscreen works then.

Stefan

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galu

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Radeon (RV100) on X32: it doesn't work (works the same as before - VESA framebuffer @800x600). All I know is that the card card is not supported by the "ATIRadeon" driver, only by "radeon" driver (ThinkWiki has some information on using this gpu under Linux).

Is there a way to force 1024x768 mode (framebuffer)?

Michael.

StefanS

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On Mar 8, 2012 12:18 AM, "galu" <gal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Radeon (RV100) on X32: it doesn't work (works the same as before - VESA framebuffer @800x600). All I know is that the card card is not supported by the "ATIRadeon" driver, only by "radeon" driver (ThinkWiki has some information on using this gpu under Linux).

I know, the RV100 is mentioned in the "radeon" mesa driver. But afaik there are some changes needed for Android. But I am not an expert in this area.

>
> Is there a way to force 1024x768 mode (framebuffer)?

I would have thought that "video=1024x768" on the kernel cmdline should do that, but apparently not.

Check the log (CatLog application) if you want to find out more (video is initialized at the very beginning).

Stefan


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> Michael.
>
> On Wednesday, March 7, 2012 9:59:45 AM UTC+1, StefanS wrote:
>>
>> Hmm, I have enabled the radeon (rv100) mesa part, but I don't think it'll work. You can test it.
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galu

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On Thursday, March 8, 2012 9:04:08 AM UTC+1, StefanS wrote:

I would have thought that "video=1024x768" on the kernel cmdline should do that, but apparently not.

Check the log (CatLog application) if you want to find out more (video is initialized at the very beginning).

Stefan


Thanks for your effort. 
I don't know anything about graphics drivers under Linux, and especially on Android. I've attached the first lines of logcat output, though.

Michael.
logcat-x32.txt

TheMouse

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Mar 9, 2012, 4:12:11 PM3/9/12
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Tried the March 07 build on the x220.

Few Notes:

- WIFI works! I noticed that I could see some other networks but not
my own. I reset my router, that didn't work. What eventually worked
was switching from channel 6 to channel 11.

- The resolution does not seem to be the native resolution
(1366x768).

- Error -101 when trying to download apps. (I'm running live off of
USB drive)

- Browser works for many sites but crashes on some. I can get to
hotmail.com but when I log in, it crashes.

If there's anything you need me to test, let me know. Thanks!

Brian Raker

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Woohoo!  A tester for the X220!

Thanks TheMouse!

-Brian

TheMouse

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Update (x220):

 - Wifi works consistently.  I don't know what was going on before.
 - Apps: Sometimes when I boot up apps will not download and browser, YT, and other pre-installed apps crash.  Other times everything works perfectly.  I wonder if it's something as silly as my flash drive being bad.
 - Auto rotate does not work.  Is there a way to manually rotate?

Nob

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Hello Stefan

I recently tried the ICS RC1 Asus platform, loved the touch screen
worked, but had no wifi support on my thinkpad X220,
so I would love to try your thinkpad build, but find no seed for the
torrent. Furthermore it seems as the WIFI problem remains.

Since I would love to switch from Windows, is there any hope for a
fixed WIFI driver for my model?

Thanks for your support.

Nob

StefanS

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Mar 10, 2012, 12:45:27 PM3/10/12
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Hi Norbert,

Wifi on the x220 seems to work, although you may need to add a network
manually (doesn't have to exist) before it will show available
networks.
As for the torrent: you probably don't have a torrent client which
does trackerless torrents, so I would recommend you try Deluge or
µTorrent as they work well for me.

Stefan

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Thank you for the effort on this. Its much appreciated. I had no luck
getting the touch or autorotate features to work on my X201T. I been
trying to get that working for some time now myself. Hopefully there
is some success on that front. I have been looking for options to make
it work, rebuild kernel, roll my own with no luck. Figure someone else
with more experience might have success where I haven't.

StefanS

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I think for the x200 series (x201 x220 x221) we need to find out if
the hdaps kernel module can work at all - didn't see any reference to
it in the source code. Maybe someone can check with a recent Linux and
see if it works there. There are two modules, one in the standard
kernel and the other one in the tp_smapi module which ususally has to
be compiled as an additional module.

Then, you need to check /sys/devices/platform/hdaps/position to see if
it outputs anything useful.

Stefan

StefanS

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Ok, I found out that the sourceforge version of tp_smapi has been
cloned on github and updated to include support for more recent
devices like the x200 series. I'll integrate this into my next build.

Stefan

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Hello StefanS,

I have a few HP Compaq 2710ps that I would like to run this on, as dual boot android/Windows would be a perfect solution for me. I am downloading the ISO now and will be installing it shortly. I will update you on any problems, and also gather any information you need to add support for this machne. Thanks!

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Brandon Cleary

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After installing your build, the touchscreen calibration is off. Is there anyway to recalibrate it? Everything else seems to work properly, but I can only test so much with an uncalibrated screen.

Paul Freund

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Dear Stefan,

I hope you are still engaged in the Universal images,

I have a Lenovo X200 Tablet and already tested your builds, they run fine :) only problem is the Touchscreen/Wacom Pen.
I already verified that the serial device works and outputs raw data for the panel on use. I also came across the wacom-input driver which "kinda" works. 
After enabling the touch screen traces, I can sometimes see that when I touch the screen with the Pen. but nothing really useful, only a single point is recognized, no lines.

I know there are utilities for calibrating the touchscreen, but not included in the build and I don't know if its the solution so I didn't try to mix the images.
If there is anything I can do, i'm glad to help (i'm familiar with c++ and linux ( compiling, gentoo etc )), but I hornestly don't know where to start ( also I hope the work can be avoided ).

Best regards,

Paul

Paul Freund

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On Monday, April 23, 2012 10:28:33 PM UTC+2, Paul Freund wrote:
Dear Stefan,

I hope you are still engaged in the Universal images,

I have a Lenovo X200 Tablet and already tested your builds, they run fine :) only problem is the Touchscreen/Wacom Pen.
I already verified that the serial device works and outputs raw data for the panel on use. I also came across the wacom-input driver which "kinda" works. 
After enabling the touch screen traces, I can sometimes see that when I touch the screen with the Pen. but nothing really useful, only a single point is recognized, no lines.

I know there are utilities for calibrating the touchscreen, but not included in the build and I don't know if its the solution so I didn't try to mix the images.
If there is anything I can do, i'm glad to help (i'm familiar with c++ and linux ( compiling, gentoo etc )), but I hornestly don't know where to start ( also I hope the work can be avoided ).

Best regards,

Paul


Okay I have a few additions, on the X200 tablet the screen rotation works, but has an offset of 90 degree, so when I hold it it in tablet mode it is always rotated.
Then I experienced a few funny things with the ouchscreen driver. First I should have mentioned that the X200T is available with a combination of touchscreen and wacom-Pen, and they both push their signals to ttyS0. 
The driver kinda works with the pen when I start it a dozen of times, it works like it had processing gaps in which no input is processed and where it does nothing. The more instances of wacom-input I start the more fluently the signals seem to get. 
The touch part doesn't work at all, it also seems like the pen stops to work when I push the screen to much and it tries to use the touch data, but this is just a guess.
I could also try to extend the wacom-input driver but I would be grateful for a few tips.

Best regards,

Paul

TheMouse

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Apr 27, 2012, 1:45:26 PM4/27/12
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Does anyone know how to get external monitor/display working? I'd
like to use my x220 to demonstrate some apps we're developing on a
projector. TIA

On Mar 4, 6:47 pm, StefanS <andr...@stefanseidel.info> wrote:
> Dear group,
>
> I have created a new image not only for my beloved X41t, but i should also
> work on the X61t and maybe the x220t (WiFi doesn't seem to work on this).
> It features the hdaps module from tp_smapi, so auto-rotation and tilt
> sensors games should work on the X61t now, too.
>
> The image contains drivers for most components, so if your
> wifi/graphics/bluetooth/whatever doesn't work it's likely that it will not
> be so easy to get it to work.
> Pinyin IME is also included, battery status is reported correctly always,
> etc. Full changelog will follow after some sleep :)
>
> Magnet link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ab537845a97e9ddc0a24ab1093f4db6847764e9a
> and the torrent file is attached as usual.
>
> Looking forward for feedback :)
>
> Stefan
>
>  thinkpad_universal-4.0.3-20120304.iso.torrent
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spaesani

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Apr 27, 2012, 11:14:19 PM4/27/12
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Hi Stefan.

I wanted to ask two things.
Seems Yi's ok with people uploading their builds for others to download.
Is it ok with you if I uploaded your (torrent's) iso file (the whole file) to the AndroidX86 project?

Also, I have an x61 tablet and will be trying out your build. I am anticipating problems and wanted to know
if you provide the source for your build or a link to a project server for your build where I can work with the code.

Thanks.




On Sunday, March 4, 2012 5:47:42 PM UTC-5, StefanS wrote:
Dear group,

I have created a new image not only for my beloved X41t, but i should also work on the X61t and maybe the x220t (WiFi doesn't seem to work on this).
It features the hdaps module from tp_smapi, so auto-rotation and tilt sensors games should work on the X61t now, too.

The image contains drivers for most components, so if your wifi/graphics/bluetooth/whatever doesn't work it's likely that it will not be so easy to get it to work.
Pinyin IME is also included, battery status is reported correctly always, etc. Full changelog will follow after some sleep :)

Magnet link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ab537845a97e9ddc0a24ab1093f4db6847764e9a
and the torrent file is attached as usual.

Looking forward for feedback :)

Stefan

spaesani

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Apr 28, 2012, 1:40:47 AM4/28/12
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I'm booting off a usb key on an X61 tablet.

I get "Detecting Android-x86" and the kernel load dots, eg: ...........
but it is very very slow.

Did you have a similar issue or did it boot normally?

spaesani

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Ok, got past the detecting android (was my usb key setup)

Live CD mode is good.
Install is good.

Wifi works (iwl3945 and ucode. nice inclusion).
Pen touch is sketchy. Works sometimes, others not.
Finger touch is not working (no pressure/resistive sensitivity)
Tablet's buttons are off
screen rotate goes to home screen
print activates the apps menu
escape is ok (I just lost my last edit :))
rocker button changes volume
(maybe another keymapping or needs specific keymapping for x61 ?):
Haven't tried the fingerprint scanner (no apps yet. hmm the Atrix has a fingerprint scanner
..)
No orientation based screen rotate.

Overall a nice piece of work. Lots of little goodies (I especially like the Terminal's readline like, actual readline ?, input). I won't give away all the little surprises here :)

I was wondering however what approach was used for the wacom drivers?
From what I can tell so far there is no X on this droid and all documentation on linux wacom drivers indicates an x driver part. Also I don't see a udev anywhere (some other udev like system in place on android?). Could you share a little on what you did in this regard? And if you have any tips for fully configuring the tablet please let me know.

BTW,
Thanks!
:]

StefanS

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Apr 30, 2012, 4:09:36 AM4/30/12
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Hi, thanks for the feedback!
Here's mine ;)

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:57, spaesani <spae...@gmail.com> wrote:
Pen touch is sketchy. Works sometimes, others not.
Finger touch is not working (no pressure/resistive sensitivity)
Yeah, I know that the combined touch/pen thing doens't work, but can't test because I have only pen on my x41t.
 
Tablet's buttons are off
 screen rotate goes to home screen
 print activates the apps menu
 escape is ok (I just lost my last edit :))
Yes, needs a custom mapping, shouldn't be a problem to add it. But I found that the info on the scancodes in the ThinkpadWiki was wrong at least for mine, so you would need to run getevent and check the scancodes/keycodes there.
 
 rocker button changes volume
That's intended ;)
 
Haven't tried the fingerprint scanner (no apps yet. hmm the Atrix has a fingerprint scanner
Well, it shouldn't be too hard to port libthinkfinger to Android, but I haven't bothered yet because I don't see so much use for it...
 
No orientation based screen rotate.
Are you sure? Rotation only works when in tablet mode (and not disabled, obviously). You can also try
  stop tablet-mode
  start tablet-mode
in a Terminal and see if that fixes it. There seems to be a problem sometimes if the tablet-mode daemon is started too early. I think I heard from someone else that with the newest thinkpad_universal image, the custom hdaps kernel module that I built from source worked better than the stock kernel that was there previously.
 
I was wondering however what approach was used for the wacom drivers?
From what I can tell so far there is no X on this droid and all documentation on linux wacom drivers indicates an x driver part. Also I don't see a udev anywhere (some other udev like system in place on android?). Could you share a little  on what you did  in this regard?  And if you have any tips for fully configuring the tablet  please let me know.
You can see everything in the now official git repo: http://goo.gl/xK5AX
The daemon is in the wacom subdirectoy. The pen part is just a serial interface (/dev/ttyS0) which has a special protocol. I don't know if the touch part needs a kernel module, but maybe it also comes through the same serial port, in which case it would be easy to just extend the wacom daemon to pass through the pen events to one uinput device (as it is now) and the touch event to a second one (which then also should correctly report min/max values etc.). But right now I don't have time for this, and even if, I wouldn't know what to do as I don't have a (finger) touch screen device ;)

Best regards,

Stefan

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Just to mention, I tested on my VAIO (that was the same wifi chipset) and worked like a charm !
No touchpad and no sound.
If sound worked fine, would be my primary choice of OS for my old notebook.
Nice work guys !

StefanS

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Hi, you don't need to clone the git seperately, just follow these
instructions and you should be fine:
http://www.android-x86.org/getsourcecode

Stefan

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steve paesani

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I think I got it.
When we clone the Androidx86 repo as the instructions say your 'device' code
will be in a 'device' section. Correct?

felix maibaum

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Sounds exactly like on mine. Turns out the Wifi worked with another
access point, don't know why.
About no touch or pen: which screen do you have? I have the 1024x768
with resistive touch capability.


2012/6/25 sanktnelson <sankt...@googlemail.com>:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> just tested this on my trusty old x61t. The live image boots fine, but I
> have neither touch nor pen input. Also, while it sees my Wifi network, it
> won't connect. pressing connect just does nothing. Any ideas?
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stefanS - Thanks for the link to download your Build. I tested it on my X41, wifi works well but the auto rotation does not seems to work at all.
when testing the file "android-x86-4.0-RC2-thinkpad.iso" (Jul 15, 2012 8:27 AM) , not wifi but the auto rotation works grate !! also on a T42 and T43. from the download page.
is there a way to add the wifi support to the last file from Jul 15, 2012?  or maybe to reconfigure the auto rotation on your file so it will work like in the file from the download page?

Assaf

steve paesani

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I have the same, 1024x768 with resistive touch and pen.
I just installed XUbuntu and both the pen and touch work out of the box.
The Androidx86 build instructions allow for a working kernel config to be used in the build.
Of course the running distros, in my case XUbuntu, are using X drivers. This means the resultant kernel needs some X of some kind (I'm not sure how far into X an X driver goes, if at all). Check this out also:
Far as I can tell it shoiuld be possible to 'move' working kernels to the AndroidX86 build for a particular machine. If some parts of X are needed I am supposing they can be placed in the rootfs of the build. Not pure Android but who cares in so long as it works.

I'm still setting up a work machine and have yet to complete the download of the AndroidX86 source. In time I'll get a build going and test it out.
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