[mdlug] Distro Suggestions f/Panasonic Toughbook CF-19

[Peter Bart]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:52:50 -0500
Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Peter Bart wrote:
> > Good Morning,
> > 	I'm having some trouble with the finishing touches of an
> > 	openSUSE 11.4 install on this box, which has a convertible
> > 	touchscreen. I just can't seem to find the way to get an
> > 	onscreen keyboard up to login and come back from
> > 	screensaver/resume. Also the touchpad is not recognized, but
> > 	usable. I was able to calibrate the touchscreen. It's a late
> > 	model Intel dual core processor with 160GB hard drive and
> > 8GB RAM so I don't necessarily need a lightweight distro. But I am
> > 	thinking about putting the current version of Ubuntu Netbook
> > 	Remix on it because I can get Onboard to show at the login
> > 	screen and resume/screensaver login on my Asus tablet
> > install of UNR 10.04. And it's generally tablet/touchscreen
> > friendly. But before I try and pound a square peg into a round hole
> > I thought I'd ask for suggestions. Anyone know of a
> > 	tablet/touchscreen friendly distro?
> 
> openSUSE 12.1 was just released last week.  I suggest giving that a
> try.
> 
> Also, look in http://download.opensuse.org/, especially in the
> repositories.
> 
> ALSO, when in the YaST Software Manager, click on View->RPM Groups.
> 
> There's a lot of software which is listed only under that tab.
> _______________________________________________

	I finally got to it, openSUSE 12.1 does in fact come with an
	onscreen keyboard to login. It looks like Caribou, but I see
	xvkbd is install by default as well. The touchpad is still not
	recognized and I'll have to download the touchscreen
	calibration tool, but very nice. It's very different using
	Gnome 3, we'll see. I like what I've seen from Enlightenment.
	Thanks.
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Best Regards,

Peter The Plumber
<petertheplumber at att.net>