Installing Fedora Core 5 on a ThinkPad X41 Tablet

Success Chart

Item		Working	Notes
Installation	Network Installation	Yes
	USB Installation	Not Tested
Display	Laptop Screen	Yes	Xorg i810 driver
	CRT / Projector	Yes
	Screen Rotation	Yes	Separate X server (not on-the-fly)
	Stylus	Yes	wacom serial driver.
Power Management	Software Suspend (hibernate)	Yes	Software Suspend 2
	Suspend to Memory (ACPI sleep)	Yes (mostly)	Software Suspend 2, occasional crash
Audio		Yes	ALSA intel8x0 driver
Wireless	802.11b/g	Yes	ipw2200/madwifi drivers
	Bluetooth	Not Tested	Should work. See Installing Fedora Core 4 on a ThinkPad X41 Tablet
Extra Buttons	Keyboard Section	Yes	ibm-acpi driver
	Tablet buttons	Yes	setkeycodes
Fingerprint Scanner		Not Tested	See Integrated Fingerprint Reader.
Harddisk Active Protection		Not Tested	See Active Protection System.

Installation

Installation is straight forward and no different from the process mentioned in Installing Fedora Core 4 on a ThinkPad X41 Tablet.

Configuration

X Server

Enabling the Stylus

Add the following lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:

# Map stylus to a serial port
setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x0200 irq 5 autoconfig

Add the lines in bold font to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

 Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "default"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
        InputDevice    "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
      Driver        "wacom"
      Identifier    "cursor"
      Option        "Device"        "/dev/ttyS0"
      Option        "Type"          "cursor"
      Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"
      Option        "Mode"          "Absolute"
      Option        "TPCButton"     "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
      Driver        "wacom"
      Identifier    "stylus"
      Option        "Device"        "/dev/ttyS0"
      Option        "Type"          "stylus"
      Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"
EndSection

Enabling Screen Rotation

Add the following lines to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

# Clockwise Rotation

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "rotateCW"
        Screen      0  "Screen0CW" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "cursorCW" "SendCoreEvents"
        InputDevice    "stylusCW" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0CW"
        Driver      "i810"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        Option      "NoAccel"       "false"
        Option      "DRI"           "true"
        Option      "Rotate"        "CW"
        BoardName   "Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller"
        Option      "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
        Option      "SWCursor"      "On"
EndSection 

Section "InputDevice"
      Driver        "wacom"
      Identifier    "cursorCW"
      Option        "Device"        "/dev/ttyS0"
      Option        "Type"          "cursor"
      Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"
      Option        "Mode"          "Absolute"
      Option        "TPCButton"     "on"
      Option        "TopX"          "500"
      Option        "BottomX"       "18000"
      Option        "TopY"          "-6000"
      Option        "BottomY"       "18500"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
      Driver        "wacom"
      Identifier    "stylusCW"
      Option        "Device"        "/dev/ttyS0"
      Option        "Type"          "stylus"
      Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"
      Option        "Rotate"        "CW"
EndSection 

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0CW"
        Device     "Videocard0CW"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
                Modes    "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

To activate the rotated layout, start X with $ startx -- :1 -layout rotateCW