CF-18 Windows 7 in 2020

I just got a beautiful low hour CF18.
1.2GHz 1.5GB Ram.
Its immaculate.not a scratch or hair on it. and dirt cheap.

Installed Windows 7 32bit Pro succesfully and is perfectly usable.
Been updating it all day and the wifi installed itself including other components.
But the touchscreen, video drivers and front buttons do not work.
I tried the guide here step by step but not one of the drivers are accepted.
Anyone had any luck recently doing this ?

 

I would do the upgrade path. Upgrade each step only after everything works.

XP to Vista
Vista to 7

7 to Linux

 

Tough one, no driver bundle available. Download the Panasonic driver download manager first, see if they have the drivers for Vista. Install Vista and closely follow the driver install list.

Its a real pain, believe me. If you get everything working in Vista, do the upgrade to 7

 

hmm and i thought getting my thinkpad t60P working to its full potential was a challenge. that took weeks. and i didnt had kids back then.

funny thing is on xubuntu everything worked.

its a cf18K
and the vista sound driver works thats a start. i hope to find the video driver and touchscreen. the rest is not that needed

 

I'm running Xubuntu on a CF-74 and CF-30, Mint 19.3 on a CF-19Mk5.

 

reverted back to xp trying to get that to run but drivers are very wacky , missing files and the download manager just does not work anymore... and my sticky # key is really bad in xp in 7 it got ignored after a minute but xp just keep going *BEEEP*
back to xubuntu it is !

 

now i cant get the screen to calibrate in xubuntu its always miles off. i also tried manually :/

 

Keep trying Tom, you will get there and let us know the outcome.

 

hello, have you tried it with xinput-calibrator ?
sudo apt-get install xinput-calibrator

 

yup, several times following instructions by the letter and iv also tried manual calibration from a guide i found by calculating the pixels or something but it never works. its about 3cm from the corners. if i click in the edge.

 

Toughbooks liked to be cared for... They liked to be loved... Perhaps if you changed your siggy to a Toughbook logo instead of IBM... It might work. Just sayin...

 

On those type of screens it is very difficult to calibrate it with linux, resistive screen. There is a lengthy walkthrough somewhere for ubuntu for xinput. The normal xinput calibration will not work. I tried it on cf-19 mk1. On new models like my cf-h2 or cf-c2 very easy

 

I might have a factory restore disc that would allow starting down the upgrade path Shawn mentions above.
I used it to then put Win7 on a CF-18 10 years ago or so.
I’ll have a look...


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Since you are probably going to play with W7 at some point make sure touch in bios is set on tablet.

Re: xubuntu:
libinput is designed for multi-touch on so called "newer" machines you might try deleting libinput and installing evdev. My CF-31s are all done this way and touch is spot on. Multiple linux and debian versions. See my recent post.

It's hard to say if you calibrated with touch or tablet selected so I recommend DELETING /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d (or /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d) 99-calibration.conf and start over.

Need some code?

Code:

sudo rm /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-calibration.conf

Possibly /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-calibration.conf on some systems.

In W7 type [super-key] calib and select appropriate response. To clear calibration numbers from the registry NOTE THE CHECKBOX.

It never hurts to do a battery pull reset if the bios seems confused. See below.

 

What I have is for a CF18 MK4
There are 4 recovery cd-rom’s
Post your complete model# to see what you have/need

These are original Product Recovery CD’s for MK4 CF18
Linux is another option such as MX Linux, Mint LMDE, etc


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