Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…

Hardware

I upgraded to v1.9 of the kernel driver but I’m still not getting consistant response from the tablet. I also changed to using /dev/input/mouse0 for the USB mouse and Synaptics pad in the xorg.conf file. This change should prevent any chance that the tablet is sending mouse events and mucking […]

Notes on the Aiptek kernel driver

Sun October 23, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / Hardware tagged MythTV (updated 7120 days ago)

I discovered one problem today – the aiptek driver loaded even though it couldn’t talk to the evdev driver. I didn’t have that module built for my particular kernel. So I went into the 2.6.11 source tree under drivers/input and ran make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=$PWD modules where /usr/src/linux symlinked to […]

Some success w/Aiptek today

Fri October 21, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / GIMP / Hardware tagged GIMP / Linux / Writing (updated 7120 days ago)

My Aiptek 12000U arrived today. It’s a refurbished tablet but it appears to be in the original packaging. This is what I’m doing to get it configured under Linux. First, I had to go to the Aiptek driver web site. The SourceForge site has a downloadable package. That package allows […]

Getting the Aiptek 12000U working

Wed October 19, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / GIMP / Hardware / X11 tagged Fedora / Linux / Lost / rpm / X11 / yum (updated 7120 days ago)

I’ve discovered that the Aiptek HyperPen 1200U (available refurbished directly from Aiptek) drawing tablet is supported under Linux. The drivers appear to support nearly the complete feature set. At less than 1/2 the price of what a comparable Wacom drawing tablet would cost I can’t help but try one of […]

Aiptek HyperPen 12000U and GIMP

Wed October 12, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / GIMP / Hardware tagged acer / GIMP / graphics / Linux / linux format / Wacom (updated 7120 days ago)

Someone wrote to me a while back after I got my Aspire working with Linux to ask which button on the front panel to push to get wifi working. At the time I didn’t realize I had to press that button. Well, after a few reboots to drag the laptop […]

Acer Aspire redux: the wifi magic button

Thu October 06, 2005 in Acer Aspire 1690i / General / Hardware tagged acer / aspire / Linux / wifi (updated 7120 days ago)

After all that work with my synaptics pad I finally decided to – essentially – disable it. I bought a $20 notebook optical USB mouse and it works fine. So now, after the system comes up, I just issue synclient FingerHigh=320 and plug in the USB mouse. So why did […]

The last thing about my Aspire 1690

Sun June 12, 2005 in Acer Aspire 1690i / General / Linux tagged aspire / GIMP (updated 7120 days ago)

My CDRW/DVD RW won’t play DVDs. It handles CDs fine, but DVD playing doesn’t work. Checking the logs I found the message: Jun 11 22:58:23 kepler kernel: ATAPI device hdb: Jun 11 22:58:23 kepler kernel: Error: Illegal request — (Sense key=0x05) Jun 11 22:58:23 kepler kernel: Media region code is […]

Acer Aspire 1690 – changing region code for DVD-RW

Sun June 12, 2005 in Acer Aspire 1690i / General / Linux / Video tagged acer / aspire / yum (updated 7120 days ago)

I upgraded FC3 and got a new kernel: 2.6.11-1.27. This kernel supports the ipw2200 wireless correctly, although you may still need to get the updated acerhk module to enable the wireless after you power off and then back on. Once the wireless hardware is enabled, I think it stays enabled […]

Acer Aspire updates

Sat June 11, 2005 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Linux tagged acer / aspire / gnome (updated 7120 days ago)

After I got X running again late last night, I didn’t look too deeply at how everything else was working. One thing that stopped working was the Synaptics pad. Before X died (and was resurrected) the Synaptics driver was loading and working fine. But that was with my own kernel, […]

ACPI update and Synaptics changes

Wed June 08, 2005 in Acer Aspire 1690i / General / Hardware / Linux tagged acer / aspire / gnome / graphics / intel (updated 7120 days ago)

The i915 driver snapshot from freedesktop.org fixed my problems with the video on my Acer Aspire 1690. It even allows the graphical boot (aka rhgb) to function again. But I still can’t use the DVD player. I still get lots of errors related to accessing hdb in /var/log/messages. I’ll have […]

Laptop Update: video fixed

Tue June 07, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / Hardware / Video tagged acer / aspire / Video (updated 7120 days ago)

Everything was working well today. I took the laptop over to Panera Bread at lunch and got the wireless working there with a little script (the RH network config doesn’t bring it up for some reason). Then I managed to squeeze in a little writing work on my book. But […]

More laptop troubles

Tue June 07, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / Hardware tagged atrpms / rpm / Writing / yum (updated 7120 days ago)

More info on support for using the Acer Aspire w/Intel i915GM video: Here is an updated 915resolution, based on the 855resolution tool. Here are snapshots of the dri driver for the i915 from X.org. Note that you need to have X11R6.8.2 to work with this driver (and even then it […]