this may help you: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1038898&highlight=jaunty+tx2

The 1st thread provided is the one to use. Most of the guys in there know what they're doing, and most of the stuff is right on. :thumbup:

FWIW, IMO as someone who's used both Ibex and Jaunty on the tx2z - Ibex is easier to get up and running and seems more stable. I ditched Jaunty on my tx2z and I'll upgrade when Karmic comes out. Judging from activity in that thread that's what a lot of people are doing... 9.04 just didn't get a TON of attention, and the guys who seem to be driving that thread are already looking toward Karmic. Just my interpretation and advice as someone who's been keeping an eye on it.

Either way though the machine is GREAT with a working Linux install on it and the hardware happens to be pretty linux friendly... my install works 100%. Everything works. The same can't be said for other HP machines... my tc1100, my dv6000, and my dv4 all have one issue or another. :thumbup:

CBShipley said: Thanx for all the help guys. I got the touch tracking to work with the thread from you jayhawk, but it treeted my screen as a touch pad rather than a touch screen(i.e. it followed my finger direction but not directly under my finger, and it moved further than i moved my finger) and I couldnt tap to click. oh and my sound went out lol so Im going to try the other feed and maybe a release of karmic??

It looks like the touch has not been configured yet.  I just noticed that the xorg.conf file is not listed in the post that I linked.  It was in the other link:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6545637&postcount=1

You should be able to use that xorg.conf and things should work if you replaced the kernel with the patched version. 

Karmic is not quite ready yet.  The kernel has most of the driver updates, but it is missing one that helps move the mouse to the finger if you just touch the screen.  I don't think that the fglrx drivers are ready yet either.

Uninstall your Windows 7 multitouch driver and Jaunty will work correctly out of the box.

robbyb413 said: What is that - hocus-pocus like VW owners thinking that if they move anything in the car doing a TBA the process will fail? :lol: I mean, Jaunty doesn't even work out of the box on a tx2's that have never been touched by Win7, and I don't recall reading anything that vista multitouch and windows 7 multitouch drivers do anything that would have an impact on the window manager in Linux... how exactly are you coming to that conclusion? Do you have a refrence for this?

Currently, the Vista firmware works differently than the Windows 7 version in Linux.  The drivers themselves are not used in Linux.  The Vista firmware reports two fingers in Linux, but the Windows 7 is currently reporting one finger and then it stops reporting as soon as the second finger touches the screen.

However, removing the Windows 7 driver is not going to make Jaunty work out of the box like robbyb413 says.  To have the touchscreen work in  Ubuntu, one of the two firmwares need to be installed and linuxwacom needs to be installed with a patch to recognize the N-Trig device.  If you don't have the linuxwacom driver installed, the screen will act like a large mousepad.

jayhawk said: Currently, the Vista firmware works differently than the Windows 7 version in Linux.  The drivers themselves are not used in Linux.  The Vista firmware reports two fingers in Linux, but the Windows 7 is currently reporting one finger and then it stops reporting as soon as the second finger touches the screen. However, removing the Windows 7 driver is not going to make Jaunty work out of the box like robbyb413 says.  To have the touchscreen work in  Ubuntu, one of the two firmwares need to be installed and linuxwacom needs to be installed with a patch to recognize the N-Trig device.  If you don't have the linuxwacom driver installed, the screen will act like a large mousepad.

So it's a question of a firmware incompatibility then, not a driver issue. That at least makes sense. I have not installed Win7 on the tx2 so I never encountered an issue with that either way. 

Don't forget the wacom tools! You need to calibrate. That catches so many people.

skrubol said: Ok, maybe I overgeneralized. My Ubuntu install worked correctly as soon as I removed the Win7 multitouch drivers. Many others, who hadn't installed Win7, had it work out of the box. I guess I should add that the method of install all users that I know of used was wubi. Every account I know of that installed Ubuntu using wubi without Win7 worked correctly. My install and the one other wubi install I know of on top of Win7 did not work correctly.

Afraid of comitment, are we?? :lol: I've never used Wubi, but it's not a virtual machine IIRC - it boots as the host OS, doesn't it? It still shouldn't have anything to do with Windows drivers if that's the case.

If you do an install of Jaunty clean it doesn't work out of the box no matter what the scenario. Stylus is supported out of the box, but touch support isn't there.

robbyb413 said:

jayhawk said: Currently, the Vista firmware works differently than the Windows 7 version in Linux.  The drivers themselves are not used in Linux.  The Vista firmware reports two fingers in Linux, but the Windows 7 is currently reporting one finger and then it stops reporting as soon as the second finger touches the screen. However, removing the Windows 7 driver is not going to make Jaunty work out of the box like robbyb413 says.  To have the touchscreen work in  Ubuntu, one of the two firmwares need to be installed and linuxwacom needs to be installed with a patch to recognize the N-Trig device.  If you don't have the linuxwacom driver installed, the screen will act like a large mousepad.

So it's a question of a firmware incompatibility then, not a driver issue. That at least makes sense. I have not installed Win7 on the tx2 so I never encountered an issue with that either way.  Don't forget the wacom tools! You need to calibrate. That catches so many people.

I tried post 1 and post 2. But touchscreen is still not working on my HP touch smart tx2 laptop. Anyone else having this problem. Can someone please help me out with this. Thank you.

r123 said: I tried post 1 and post 2. But touchscreen is still not working on my HP touch smart tx2 laptop. Anyone else having this problem. Can someone please help me out with this. Thank you.

Hold up right there. Don't go mixing and matching all nimbly-bimbly like that. Ignore the thread in the second post here, it's not the right information. Go to thread in the 1st post which is the official tx2z & ubuntu thread. Read it end to end so you see what's been tried, what's been asked, what's worked and what's left unresolved.

When you get to the end, do a completely clean install (not a dist-upgrade, not something you've been messing with, just to eliminate mistakes or conflicting steps as the cause of issues) and then go back to the most recent step-by-step guide that lits out the steps for 9.04 using the steps for 8.10 as the basis for the guide's framework. If you do that and you're careful to be sure you're using the proper patched kernel image/headers corresponding to the latest walkthrough (and not letting aptitude update it improperly) you will have a "working" install. :thumbup: