Trying to get organized!

Well, now that I know that there is likely a fix for the wacom suspend bug (compiling the latest driver somehow) I thought I should probably put together a skeleton of a To Do/Accomplished list. I started by taking the hardware list from the TC1100 LQWiki (see the sidebar.)

Graphics card and accelerated graphics

• Card works out of the box on Ubuntu 9.10
• Accelerated graphics and a nice control utility come with installing the nvidia-glx-96 package
• Had to change xorg.conf
  
• DONE

Pen: stylus and eraser

• working with the repository driver
• required a change to a HAL .fdi file
  
• wacomcpl can modify settings and calibrate the screen (wacom-tools package)
  
• DONE (but may be influenced by digitizer)

Digitizer

• working with the repository driver
• loses calibration if rotated then suspended (known bug)
• calibration script functions after xhost local:root entry in .bashrc
• TODO: compile new driver and install -- this should fix the rotate/suspend problem
• TODO: running .xinitrc at every boot seems dangerous

Sound

• works out of the box (ALSA drivers)
• TODO: Headphone Jack (sensing), Microphone, Line Out -- test

Ports

• USB: working out of the box
• Ethernet: working out of the box
• TODO: VGA, Modem, IR -- test
  
• TODO: Test PCMCIA -- buy a card, either GPS or a 32-bit card reader.
• TODO: rip firmware and compile driver for SD card-reader.
  

ACPI

• Added tc1100-wmi to /etc/modules
  
• Power Button: working out of the box.
• Battery Status: working out of the box.
  
• Temperature: working out of the box.
  
• Suspend to RAM: working out of the box.
• TODO: Hibernate doesn't, even though there is a swap partition
  
• TODO: Brightness: need control script for the jog-dial
• TODO: Fan control works, but trip points are hard-coded. Can this be hacked? There is a fancontrol daemon running.
  

Wireless

• Wireless Card: works out of the box
• Bluetooth Card: works out of the box
• TODO: Bluetooth Toggle: works from system tray, needs a script/hotkey
  
• TODO: Wireless Toggle: needs script, hotkey and indicator

Buttons

• Work out of the box, require keygrabber (as in fluxbox) to translate into actions
  
• TODO: Video switch: write/find a script/program to switch modes or add screens -- nvidia-settings?
  
• TODO: CTRL/ALT/DELETE button: needs either an action or a function -- script to kill X?
  
• TODO: Jog button:
• TODO: Q-Button: Assign Q or Tabatha? Or is there a better use?
  
• TODO: Penabled buttons: Xournal and Cellwriter are the standards -- but Cellwriter has a tray icon that's almost always accessible. Something else? Must be ink/pen app.
  

Other

• TODO: Keyboard orientation: Is there a way to recognize when the keyboard is attached? Might be useful for fan control, too (if that's possible)
  
• TODO: fix cellwriter/gksu grab so that CW can input passwords -- gconf tool
  
• TODO: xcompmgr or another compositing tool for pretty, pretty baubles!
  
• TODO: hard drive indicator -- There is no LED for the hard drive, but maybe we can use the charging LED. Just invert whatever it's displaying (blink off while charging, blink on when full) Or perhaps the rotate switch LED.
• TODO: build a custom slimline case for travel -- waiting on brackets/covers from an eBay auction. Will use a nifty leather binder I found at Office Max.

More updates and additions later,

m a r