=== rbelem is now known as rbelem-pinhole-g === rbelem-pinhole-g is now known as pinhole-glasses === pinhole-glasses is now known as rbelem [00:41] 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] Try installing input-utils, and seeing if you can use them to determine what events should be sent. [00:45] 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] 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] what tool of input utils should I be using? [01:19] I generally start with lsinput, just to make sure I understand which devices are which. [01:19] 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] 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] 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] I'm fuzzy on how to determine which ACPI events are being passed. [02:19] 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] maybe I need to update my sources.list with some entries [02:20] Shouldn't need do so. You've main and universe enabled? [02:21] Try apt-get update. `apt-cache search ubuntu-netbook` should return something. The metapackage name is "ubuntu-netbook-remix" [02:22] yeah I have both main and universe, but searching for ubuntu-netbook yields nothing [02:22] Even after running apt-get update? [02:22] You're using jaunty? [02:23] yeah [02:23] deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty main [02:23] Very odd. Which arch? [02:23] deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jaunty-updates main restricted universe multiverse [02:23] Oh, yeah. You've only universe enabled in updated. Add the other components to the first line. [02:26] i386 [02:26] 66 [02:28] persia: i debootstrapped using i386 but uname -m is 686 [02:28] That's fine. add "restricted universe multiverse" to your first line above. === asac_ is now known as asac [02:29] persia: ok thanks === Leon_Nardella1 is now known as Leon_Nardella === asac_ is now known as asac