[ALPHA 2 - DEC 22] Arch Linux ARM + Gnome 3

[stevenmerrill]

I got my TouchPad successfully booting into Arch and installed all my favorite Linux goodies tonight through the magic of cower and makepkg -siA. Thanks - this is great!

Here's a small contribution: I added working function keys to matchbox-keyboard (to, for example, run wicd-curses and hit F10 to save network info, or to Alt-F4 out of an app.) Simply save https://raw.github.com/gist/06a90a12e1a ... tfile1.txt as ~/.matchbox/keyboard.xml and you'll have working function keys:

[Falcone]

Your contribution is much appreciated by me!

[data]

Hey !
I switch to Archlinux on my touchpad. But I hate virtual keyboard , so I install synergy (pacman -S synergy), this is perfect I can use my keyboard, but when I use my mouse I can't see my mouse cursor...

hmm, also I search a firefox port
I just find here https://github.com/tmpdo/ac100-binary firefox 10b5.

I remove wicd and install netcfg because i have lot of problem with wicd...

[Varemenos]

hey crimson, do you still work on this?

[Falcone]

With recent Xorg updates. the Qualcomm (msm) driver module doesn't load anymore because of ABI version mismatch (Xorg=12, msm =10). Even with IgnoreABI=True in ServerFlags section, there are "(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration". Therefore you can only get access to the TP if you have got a USB y-cable and a proper keyboard. It was a major hindrance getting the wireless up manually when you are constantly shelled with "iwioctl: cmd=0x8b(03|1d|23|25) not allowed in this mode". But anyway, a full sysupdate unfortunately didn't help.

[dbrown]

Thanks man. Decided to reinstall today after breaking glibc and was doing pacman -Syu in chroot before the first boot to avoid the touchscreen issues i remember from before and this almost had me frustrated enough to figure it out myself. And turns out touchscreen wasnt a problem anyway
Just made my day dude.

[kmihelich]

The new package is in the new [alarm] repository. After upgrading pacman, which will install the new pacman.conf to use that repo, a subsequent -Syu should pull in the new driver.

[Falcone]

Manually installing 'xf86-video-msm' did the trick. Thanks for the hint!

[Falcone]

[right-click emulation]

Is this patch included in xf86-input-evdev 2.7.0-2? http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~kalmar/blog/?p=247
It says since 2.7.0... Unfortunately my TP is @home so for the rest of the day i can't test.

EDIT: WORKEE! In /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf i changed two sections (dunno if just one of them would be enough):

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
MatchIsTablet "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "EmulateThirdButton" "true"
Option "EmulateThirdButtonTimeout" 750"
Option "EmulateThirdButtonMoveThreshold" "30"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev touchscreen catchall"
MatchIsTouchScreen "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "EmulateThirdButton" "true"
Option "EmulateThirdButtonTimeout" 750"
Option "EmulateThirdButtonMoveThreshold" "30"
EndSection


Now let's see if we can also emulate a mouse wheel using up/down gestures...

[Falcone]

you can configure to show all categories but even with that, after launching the normal keyboard (matchbox) it doesn't stick to foreground and after touch anything in the desktop it just goes to the background and without binding any phisical key to alt+tab we can't bring it back, thats why i was trying to use the keyboard widget of kde active or maliit.

As xev is (now?) available, lets xmodmap keycode 240 (the webOS "task viewer" button) to Alt+Tab...

EDIT: interesting post using xte.