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hp6735s and ATI display driver in ubuntu

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Situation:

  • I enjoy using Ubuntu!
  • I enjoy using Ubuntu 9.10 (cos’ I still haven’t upgraded to 10.04)
  • I have hp6735s laptop
  • I use ATI proprietary driver
  • everything is too smoothed on the screen
  • font look like shit
  • windows *** works fine

After digging a little I found out that the problem is:

  • not with the fonts
  • Ubuntu set wrong screen resolution for me: 1280×768
  • right screen resolution 1280×800 is not in the list in System > Parameters > Screen
  • right screen resolution is not available in ATI Catalyst either

Here’s how I fixed it:

  1. run sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf in terminal
  2. found something like Section "Monitor" ... Option "PreferredMode" "1280x768"
  3. changed 1280x768 to 1280x800
  4. everything works fine after reboot!
  5. compiz and all 3D effects work nice too!
  6. ...and hey, it's the first time I edited xorg.conf by hands!

Enjoy using linux!
That the OS you really need!

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Genius G-Pen 4500 && Ubuntu 9.10

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

I’m about to use my Genius G-Pen 4500 with Ubuntu. And here is my experience in installing this tablet.

Everything is pretty stright-forward.

  1. Go to http://code.google.com/p/linuxgenius/
  2. Get the source for wizardpen. I used http://linuxgenius.googlecode.com/files/wizardpen-0.7.0-alpha2.tar.gz
    wget http://linuxgenius.googlecode.com/files/wizardpen-0.7.0-alpha2.tar.gz
  3. Unpack.
    tar -xvf wizardpen-0.7.0-alpha2.tar.gz
  4. Move into the unpacked dir:
    cd wizardpen-0.7.0-alpha2
  5. Configure, make and install:
    sudo ./configure --with-xorg-module-dir=/usr/lib/xorg/modules && make && make install
  6. Check for wizardpen.la and wizardpen.so (driver installed correctly):
    ls /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/wizardpen.*
  7. Connect your tablet (if not yet connected)
  8. Create file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/99-wizardpen.fdi
  9. I used the following data inside the file:
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
    <deviceinfo version="0.2">
    <device>
    <!-- This MUST match with the name of your tablet -->
    <match key="info.product" contains="UC-LOGIC Tablet WP5540U">
    <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">wizardpen</merge>
    <merge key="input.x11_options.SendCoreEvents" type="string">true</merge>
    <merge key="input.x11_options.TopX" type="string">0</merge>
    <merge key="input.x11_options.TopY" type="string">0</merge>
    <merge key="input.x11_options.TopZ" type="string">40</merge>
    <merge key="input.x11_identifier" type="string">stylus</merge>
    <merge key="input.x11_options.BottomX" type="string">32739</merge>
    <merge key="input.x11_options.BottomY" type="string">32745</merge>
    <merge key="input.x11_options.BottomZ" type="string">1024</merge>
    <merge key="input.x11_options.MaxX" type="string">32739</merge>
    <merge key="input.x11_options.MaxY" type="string">32745</merge>
    </match>
    </device>
    </deviceinfo>

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  10. After all this You should reboot and start using your Genius G-Pen 4500.
  11. FIXED: I still have one unsolved problem. The stylus starts working a bit far from the tablet. Can’t resolve this. Under Windows I found quite unique driver, which let me set sensitivity for it. FIX: Add TopZ and BottomZ values to the file

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