Re: tc1000 linux - the project

on Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 06:20:11AM +0700, Samphan Raruenrom wrote:
>
> Yes. And the proper way of doing write-anyway, i18n-correct
> handwriting recognition.

Things like xstroke arn't a million miles away from doing this
kind of thing.

> And the window manager would have extension
> that put the dialog away from the stylus like MS TPC extension.
>

hmm, I havn't seen this ( I think I need to see if my tablet still
boots XP ;-) ). Im the author of matchbox[1] so its pretty easy for me
to hack these kind of features into that.

> >>I personally want to see all feature in tc1x00 get implemented
> >>in linux and X so it is as useful as Windows XP TPC.
> >>(which mean dynamic screen rotate and Q menu in linux)
> >Screen rotation is there ( though it'd be better with a kdrive nv
> >server :) - should be faster than vesa )
>
> Yes. But nv doesn't accellerate in portraite mode anyway.
> Do you know why XFree86 drivers don't support Xrandr rotaion?

The Xfree kdrive ( aka tinyX ) servers do ( Vesa and Xfbdev ones at
least ) . Im not sure why they do fully support XRandR and 'big' X
servers dont. Though the problem is kdrive servers exist for most
cards except NVidia ones.

Id hope using the Xvesa and big X nv sources it wouldn't be too hard
to make a rotation capable kdrive nv server.

>
> >I have no idea what the Q menu is.
>
> It's a Compaq utility used to do everything other Notebook do using
> buttons, like adjust screen brightness, switch screens and adjust volumn.
>

Aha right.

> I'd like to make linux support tc1000 naturally. That'd mean to support
> as many features as possible. The Q menu is just a piece of software
> (tc1000 doesn't do anything in hardware :-) We can have it if HP open
> the source to us or just give us the specification.
> Possible?
>

Its sounds like something similar would be easy to write in Gtk or
whatever. You wouldn't need the source to qemu, but just what bytes to
push to control the screen brightness. Can you already get key events
from the Q key ?

   -- Matthew

[1] http://handhelds.org/~mallum/matchbox
Received on Wed Jun 25 08:42:03 2003