just turn off compiz. Use metacity instead. You could build this into your script even: i.e. when the user presses a button to rotate the screen or the tablet senses the screen flip, it reverts to metacity.

I have the same problem as Dan. To answer your questions:

1) Yes, the pen can be used without the scripts running.
2) Yes, the modules are loaded.

No, autorotate.py doesn’t produce any errors either.

I find that I can change the screen orientation just by tilting the laptop irregardless of whether the screen is up (regular laptop) or down (tablet).

All the best,

Raphael

Finally, the error you experience when you kill the script is just a standard message from python for keyboard interrupts. It just means that you didn’t quit the problem cleanly, but killed it. However, that should not make any difference with my rotate script, so don’t worry about it.

I am having trouble with the script. It works rotating the screen very well, but I cannot activate anything with my pen. The cursor moves, but I can’t open the “Applications” menu in tablet mode, for example. I am running Ubuntu 8.04 I applied the fix for the negative calibration values referred to in the comments and in doing so, noticed that both my /sys/devices/platform/hdaps/position and /sys/devices/platform/hdaps/calibrate files are empty! What would cause this? I assume that this is what is causing my problem. BTW, I get no error when I run autorotate.py - but when I kill it with Ctrl-C, I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/bin/autorotate.py”, line 92, in
main()
File “/usr/local/bin/autorotate.py”, line 48, in main
time.sleep(0.1);
KeyboardInterrupt

Thanks!

I ported the functionality to a bash script - including the rotation of the arrow keys.

Visit my homepage: http://javafalke.de to download the script.

BUT: the script needs sudo privileges to be able to set the arrow keys correctly.

cu
Mathias

I had to make 2 small changes to get things to work on my X61t with Kubuntu Hardy.

First, in the /etc/acpi/events/swivel-* files, I had to remove the quotes from the action= lines, ie instead of this

action="echo laptop > /etc/tabletmode"

I needed this:

action=echo laptop > /etc/tabletmode

because I was getting “unknown command” errors from the shell.

Second, since I’m using KDE, I added the line

/usr/local/bin/autorotate.py &

to the file /etc/kde3/kdm/Xstartup, to get the script to run automatically when I login. I added it right before the line that says “exec”.

I will have time after Saturday to debug the script a little bit, as I’ve noticed some people have problems with it.

In the meantime, come to SFU Open House on Saturday if you live in the Vancouver area.