[ubuntu-in] AMD vs intel

[Vishal Rao]

On 10/19/07, Mir Nazim <mirnazim at gmail.com> wrote:
> Could you please expad on it how you did it or link us up.

Right now I'm running openSUSE, but the following can apply to Gutsy
I'm sure :-)

I blacklisted the bcm43xx module and used ndiswrapper with the latest
WinXP 32bit driver (bcwl5.inf and bcwl5.sys) for my card which is a
model 4321. Gutsy bcm43xx model appears to works and it downloads some
firmware but it is not the latest and does not support 4321. I tried
getting latest fwcutter but it does not recognise the latest WinXP
driver so I resorted to ndiswrapper. See
http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=39622

For the touchscreen (mine is an "eGalax" model) I found the following
links and used the "Mike.Christ" xorg.conf (attached in first link
below) for good calibration numbers. I wasn't able to run calibration
myself, wil need another weekend's work I guess.

The difference I needed to get it working was to not add the "dummy"
device section and in the "ServerLayout" section I added [InputDevice
"touchscreen" "SendCoreEvents"] instead of [InputDevice "touchscreen"
"CorePointer"].

I copied the udev rule file also from the evtouch tar. My device is
now "/dev/input/evtouch_event" which points to the right
"/dev/input/event2" or whatever the eventX is with the current boot.
See http://www.kellyandsopho.com/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=LinuxOnHpPaviliontx1000z
and http://stz-softwaretechnik.com/~ke/touchscreen/evtouch.html

HTH

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