[00:41] <petafile> So I have a tablet and there's buttons on the side for stuff like rotate/open journal/stuff, xev doesn't detect the events but the buttons light up when I touch them.  Any ideas on how to get them to be recognized
[00:45] <persia> Try installing input-utils, and seeing if you can use them to determine what events should be sent.
[00:45] <persia> You my find that the events provided are not seen by the kernel (needs patches), or more commonly, you may find that the events simply aren't progressing to X.
[00:46] <persia> In the latter case, you can either fiddle with xorg.conf, or better, with .fdi files to get HAL to tell X to recognise them.
[01:13] <petafile> what tool of input utils should I be using?
[01:19] <persia> I generally start with lsinput, just to make sure I understand which devices are which.
[01:19] <persia> I then tend to use input-kbd to try to get a map from each (this is incomplete for a variety of reasons essentially related to poor mapping between "keyboard" and HID)
[01:20] <persia> Once I have a good idea what I'm seeking, I'll use input-events to find the keycodes for the specific key that won't work.
[01:21] <persia> Note that some devices send "button" presses or ACPI events, rather than keypresses.  For buttonpresses, you can check with jstest from the "joystick" package.
[01:21] <persia> I'm fuzzy on how to determine which ACPI events are being passed.
[02:19] <mcgrof> persia: thanks, installed intrepid though on this eeepc, upgrading to jaunty now, but I still see no packages when I apt-cache search for ubuntu-netbook
[02:19] <mcgrof> maybe I need to update my sources.list with some entries
[02:20] <persia> Shouldn't need do so.  You've main and universe enabled?
[02:21] <persia> Try apt-get update.  `apt-cache search ubuntu-netbook` should return something.  The metapackage name is "ubuntu-netbook-remix"
[02:22] <mcgrof> yeah I have both main and universe, but searching for ubuntu-netbook yields nothing
[02:22] <persia> Even after running apt-get update?
[02:22] <persia> You're using jaunty?
[02:23] <mcgrof> yeah
[02:23] <mcgrof> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty main
[02:23] <persia> Very odd.  Which arch?
[02:23] <mcgrof> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-updates main restricted universe multiverse
[02:23] <persia> Oh, yeah.  You've only universe enabled in updated.  Add the other components to the first line.
[02:26] <mcgrof> i386
[02:26] <mcgrof> 66
[02:28] <mcgrof> persia: i debootstrapped using i386 but uname -m is 686
[02:28] <persia> That's fine.  add "restricted universe multiverse" to your first line above.
[02:29] <mcgrof> persia: ok thanks