On 11/11/2012 09:53 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
I see a lot of vendors are putting out hybrid tablet-laptops with a
touch screen which flips, and traditional keyboard, which can be used
in a number of ways, including as a tablet. Has anyone gotten
experience with using Fedora on such a machine, and if so how (if at
all) was the touch feature supported?
I am running Fedora 17 on a Dell Duo that is a couple years old.
It shipped with Windows and it sucked. I installed Fedora (15?) on it
and it came to life. Its a really nice machine with it.
As far as the touch functionality, I had to install drivers manually
back then, but I believe that the kernel now ships with them natively.
Touch just works in F17, but it ceases to work if I put my Duo to sleep
and then resume. Whether it works on your device depends on what
hardware it has.
I don't know a whole lot about touch functionality in Fedora 17. I
haven't played around with it much. The problem with a touchscreen
device is that as soon as you want to do real work, it is soooo slow
compared to a keyboard. So what I do is use touch for general browsing
and such, but as soon as I want to get serious about something I find
myself flipping the keyboard open and typing and using the mouse.
I've seen reasonably nice units from Dell and Lenovo, but no nice
salespeople who would let me boot them from thumb drive.
If you are referring to the new Dell Duo, I think that is one sweet
machine. I'd go for it. If I didn't have an Android tablet, I'd go for
the new Duo myself.
If you are looking for advanced tablet functionality, check out the new
Plasma Active release. Rex put a build in the testing repository. I
haven't had a chance to test it yet.
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