[ubuntu-in] AMD vs intel

[Jayanth S]

On 10/18/07, Vishal Rao <vishalrao at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>


Vishal, Correct me if i'm wrong, You used a 32bit Driver on the 64bit
machine?
-- 
Jay
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