Wednesday, November 10, 2010

More on Multitouch and WeTab

Update Feb 28 2011
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Please see the following two posts for complete instructions on installing ubuntu and enabling the multi touch driver
http://wetabz.blogspot.com/2011/02/more-about-touchsceen-and-multitouch.html

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The following forum posts discusses enabling touch on On Ubuntu for the WeTab: https://bugs.launchpad.net/utouch/+bug/670795


It looks like the following two packages are needed, I haven't had a chance to test this out yet. hid-egalax-dkms_1.0.3_all.deb 
hid-dkms_1.0.5_all.deb 
Some glitch with cursor lodging on rthe last touch position still remains to be solved.



The following post discusses getting around that glitch: 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/utouch-grail/+bug/667802



Finally this is a reply from debb1046 explaining how to get Ubuntu running with multitouch on the WeTab:



since the fix has been committed the only thing you should
have to do is to add the repositories of the utouch team:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:utouch-team/utouch 
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:utouch-team/unstable

after apt-get update and apt-get upgrade and reboot you should have
multitouch working

If I understand correctly, the new driver should make it's way into
maverick-proposed soon.
 If you currently start with usbquirk on the kernel command line you have
to remove that. Likewise, if you had copied the wetab calibration
(99-calibration.conf) you have to remove that also.

In practice, the multi-touch enabled driver doesn't make a lot of
difference because none of the applications support it. The three and
four finger gestures that were shown in a video of the unity netbook
desktop will not work because the wetab's panel only reads two fingers.

4 comments:

  1. Hi,
    I made a complete howto guide to switch from WeTabOS to pure MeeGo. It's online here: http://digitalorchard.blogspot.com/2010/12/wetabos-to-pure-meego.html
    Everything works, wifi, bluetooth, card reader, the touchscreen, virtual keyboard, etc.
    I wonder if there was a way to remove 4tiitoo and install MeeGo UI instead, but I hadn't wanted to try it.
    Thanks for all your posts here, they have been very helpful.

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  2. Glad to have been of service. I liked your post, when I have time I will try out what you did. How's that working out for you btw? Are you liking the Meego setup better?

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  3. Hey Guys,

    Just saying Hello to you fellow WeTab Tinkerers, and also that I'm glad I found someone that messes with it in English... I think I am going to try to install Ubuntu on mine tomorrow, and we shall see how it goes. You guys got any other pointers for me as I go? Thanks!

    Cheers,
    Lukas Rezek

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  4. check out w3c's tutorial and other posts on the blog for how to deal with driver issues if you run into any... http://digitalorchard.blogspot.com/2010/12/wetabos-to-pure-meego.html

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