CF-52 and Ubuntu w/Fujitsu Touchscreen.

10.04 won't see the Fujitsu Component USB Touch Panel. CF-52GUNBR2M

Sooo...I upgraded to 10.10 and wham bam there it was. Works with calibrate_touchscreen too. Made the little change in the persistent file to "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-calibration.conf". See the 10.10 thread page 23. http://forum.notebookreview.com/6803791-post23.html

As a benefit it also now recognizes the Panasonic (Matsua) Gobi Wireless Modem (QDL mode) also. It didn't last night using 10.04.

Moral: If you have a USB Touch Panel, do the upgrade.......before you get a lot of stuff saved.

10.04 works great for CF-29 and others with serial touch panels, in particular Mark 3 and under. (some tweaking may be required)

Or better yet start off with 10.10 in the beginning. (for USB Panels) and maybe Gobi too.

I assume 11.?? would work too, I don't care for the Unity desktop.

 

What is Ubuntu's support on Aircards in cards in general. Have any luck with them. I brought out a few this time at work to get the dual boot on my CF-19 Mk1. I don't know what they were thinking with Unity. I know you can swap the main theme from unity back to a desktop gnome3 but I have seen a lot of people not happy with the new gnome desktop too.

 

Seems like a small thing but the little hidden up and down arrows drive me bezeek! That (Unity) was a bad plan. I still think for the later toughbooks that 10.10 rules. And now as more of them have the USB TS, it's more important.
I really tried to find the work-around for 10.04(five hours) and finally said 10.10 it is. And it WAS. I saw a lot of USB related updates flashing by.
I have no input as I don't use Aircards nor WWAN but their driver inventory is fairly complete.
For this issue the driver necessary to recognize and use hid and usb was key.
Geek talk in a way. I just learn enuf to take the next step.
If you get a chance check out a CF-52 Touchscreen. The red leds shining on the KB would be perfect on a drill rig. And the 1,000 nit ain't too shabby neither. I run 30% on the display as default.

Stay dry.

Jeff...human interface device =hid

 

A CF-52 is on my hit list on one to own soon. I just want one with the dedicated video card. I have confirmed two different cards right now. ATI 2300HD and the ATI 3650 both with 512MB RAM in the CF-52, but not all the machine codes that they come in yet.

I have the only toughbook out here on the rig. The two field computers that we have are both Dells (Latitude single cores) for the MDTOTCO unit. Then you boot off of the DOS usb drive to run the programs for it. The way our bags are treated on the plane, helicopter and rides going to the rig we have computer problems all the time. That was the main reason I got into toughbooks. Just want something with a little more boot in the graphics dept. This hitch I have a GPS module I will be working on installing by next week, this week I am looking at modded drivers for the Intel 950 graphics or other graphics tweaks for my CF-19. Then to see if I can find the drivers for the WWAN card I have, it’s just to see if I can get it to work.

I have been getting more and more into Ubuntu. Just about every machine I have now is dual boot. The last time I had really tried Linux most of it worked, but finding the right driver or tweak was a real pain. Before trying 10.10,I had used was Mandriva 2007. I still have a version of it on my usb flash drive. Need to zap it off and make it into a Ubuntu 10 live usb.
I got a copy of the complete 10.04 repositories for offline installs and should have a copy of the 10.10 repositories here before long. It’s like a 8 to 10 DVD set. Our bandwidth SUCKS out here on the rig.

Another side project right now with my son is doing a real small Linux installation that is a fully working machine. We have chosen one of the first Linux I ever used, DSL. The whole install is 50mb, but has full desktop, games, etc. You can make it bigger and fit your needs. I have been looking for older machine to try it out on. I am still deciding on CF-27 or CF-25 as our test bed or a ??? If it all works out I hope to host up the completed image for anyone wanting it. I may even try puppy on it. I know it works well on the CF-28, I haven’t tried any of there newer stuff.