Possible to install and run Ubuntu on Motion M1200 tablets?

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Wed Sep 21 18:02:12 UTC 2011


On 09/21/2011 03:31 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 21 September 2011 11:27, lewis john mcgibbney
> <lewis.mcgibbney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> With regards to these more aesthetic limitations, can you possibly expand to
>> comment on what other types of issues I might encounter. The last thing I
>> want to do is go crawling for a more recent version of XP tablet ed, I would
>> however happily opt for a version of Ubuntu with limited functionality.
>>
> 
> No automatic screen rotation, but can be implemented in scripts,
> depending upon the xorg version.
> Possible issues with the touch screen depending on chipset.
> The onscreen keyboard won't float on top of the Unity dash.
> Unity isn't designed for touch so doing things like dragging, right
> click and long-press might not work the way you hope.
> 
> Al.


Maybe openSUSE instead?
<http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/opensuse_guides/opensuse11.1_reference_guide/cha_tablet.html>

<quote>
openSUSE® comes with support for Tablet PCs with serial Wacom devices
(such as IBM/Lenovo X41, ACER TM C300/C301/C302 series, Fujitsu Lifebook
T series (T3010/T4010), HP Compaq TC4200, Motion M1200/M1400)...
</quote>






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