Does anyone know of, or know which, convertible tablet netbooks work with Ubuntu UMPC? I'm looking at devices with 7" or 8.9" screens (as my gadget bag can only barely hold a device 24cm long), such as:
CTL 2Go's new convertible tablet netbook Kohjinsha SX3 Kohjinsha SC3 Fujitsu Lifebook U810/U820 series Gigabyte M912 series Vye S41 Asus EeePC T91 (waiting quite impatiently) (or, with Netbook Remix, for that matter) Things I'm concerned about: 1) On the Samsung Q1 Ultra (running Ubuntu UMPC 8.10), screen rotation doesn't really work (it rotates the display, but the mouse/pointer information is completely wrong, so your screen clicks and joystick-mouse movements are off in lala land); this would be a concern for me when trying to use the convertible tablet in portrait orientation. 2) I'm also worried about, from my Raon Everun Digital Note, that wifi may not work on whatever device I end up buying. Apparently, Raon's wifi wasn't able to work with Ubuntu, so they ripped it out of their ubuntu version, and make you use an external dongle. Completely unacceptable. So I need to be sure the wifi capabilities of whatever device I buy will be supported by Ubuntu. (probably technically off topic, since I don't know which flavor of Ubuntu that device runs, just that it's Ubuntu of some type (NBR? Mobile/UMPC? standard? dunno). 3) Also on the Samsung Q1 Ultra, the VGA output is wonky. It will only display 1024x600 (which my monitor doesn't grok) or 800x600, which is completely inadequate. It doesn't do something sensible, like display 1024x600 letter boxed onto my monitor's 1024x768 mode. Having letter boxed versions of "display mirroring" would seem to be a pretty sensible way to handle devices with odd display resolutions on conventional displays ... I can't be the only person to have thought of this idea ... (on the Raon, the VGA port doesn't appear to work at all) 4) On the Q1 Ultra, lots of apps expect more Y resolution than 600 pixels...and thus their config screens run off the bottom of the screen. Pidgin is a perfect example of this, where there are some config options I just can't get to. 5) I don't know if this is a general ubuntu issue, or my being relatively new to ubuntu ... but I can't figure out how to get a static IP address working with the wifi on my Q1 Ultra. If I go fully dynamic, it works fine. If I try to give it a static IP, then it doesn't pick up a reasonable default route... and it's completely unclear to me how to enter that default route, and have it actually take effect. I can do it via a shell script, but I shouldn't need to run a shell script every time I connect to my home wireless. 6) I've told my Ubuntu UMPC device (the Q1 Ultra), many times, not to dim/blank the screen, ever, when I'm hooked up to AC power. It even remembers this configuration in the settings. 7) While I am a unix sysadmin, with 15 years experience, I don't want to be a sysadmin for my mobile gadget -- if it can't be done via simple, stable, well supported packages ... I consider that to be "not supported at all". I wont be doing any "rebuilding from source", so please leave out any answers that depend upon that kind of "hobbyist" level of activity to make it work. Those are all things that make me a little shy about what device I'm going to buy. I don't know how many of them are "because the hardware is poorly supported by Ubuntu" or "because Ubuntu UMPC is not fully baked yet (ex: I am pretty sure the screen rotation issue falls into this category)" or "because the device itself is deficient (the Raon's wifi situation)". I'm not willing to run Windows (in any capacity), so I want/need a well supported linux device. -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
