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Scobleizer has been giving some good remarks on the use of X41 Tablet under Windows (he works for Microsoft):

http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/

But for those of us who need Linux, there are places where to find information regarding the X41 Tablet and Linux:

http://www.dklevine.com/general/software/tc1000/x41f4.html

Another place where X41 Tablet Linux installation experience is explained:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Fedora_Core_4_on_a_ThinkPad_X41_Tablet

The on-the-fly screen rotation seems to be working for David.

The rotation protocol is part of the RandR extension in X.org:

http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/randr/

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man3/xrandr.3.html

For a more general introduction on the state of graphics in Linux:

http://www.freedesktop.org/~jonsmirl/graphics.html

Other people without X.Org have created Rotate layouts in their X configuration files:

http://math.bu.edu/people/kayeats/computers/tc1100.html

Some tips* from the Toshiba Protege m200 help page in http://www.tuxmobil.org:

http://tuxmobil.org/toshiba_portege_m200_tablet_linux.html

The driver nv from x.org does not support rotation on-the-fly, so nvidia is used which has the option "RandRRotation" set to "true" in the Device section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Another advantage is that you gain excellent 3D performance, with the downside that Suspend-To-Disk is broken, when it worked with the old driver. Perhaps it needs more than two hours to properly configure that beast for suspension.

*This information may be outdated with respect ot latest distros/X.Org packages

posted by avilella  # 9:09 AM