Lenovo Ideapad Tablet S10-T3 and Ubuntu 10.10

by David K. Levine

Things that do not work after a standard install of netbook Ubuntu

Inserting headphones into the jack has no effect, and the internal microphone does not work. Easily fixed.
No support for screen rotation. Easily fixed.
Touchscreeen not calibrated properly with external display. Easily fixed.
Kindle. Can be made to work with touch and fullscreen even.
Two buttons on the side of the screen do not do anything. Appears unfixable.
Multitouch. Can be made to work in a useful way.

Possible Gotchas

Webcam stops working: most likely this is because you turned it off using the FN ESC key. Once off rebooting does not good, you have to turn it back on again with FN ESC.
Wifi stops working: make sure the switch on the right edge is turned on.
Power switch stops working: make sure it isn't locked with the little button underneath.
Battery shows dead and wifi stops working. Not sure what causes this, but I was able to fix it by booting the machine, making sure the power was disconnected, jerking out the battery, blowing on the connection, putting the battery back in and restarting. Others have reported similar problems with equally unlikely cures, such as booting under battery power, connecting the power, then rebooting.

How to fix the sound

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf add the line options snd-hda-intel model="ideapad" to the end and reboot

Desktop or netbook Ubuntu?

Desktop customization suggestions

Rotate script

Script to switch screen between normal and counterclockwise, may be overridden with the arguments "normal" and "left"

#!/bin/bash

Z=`xrandr | grep current\ 1024\ x\ 600`

action=left

if [ "$Z" == "" ]; then
    action=normal
fi

if [ "$1" != "" ]; then
    action=$1
fi

if [ "$action" == "left" ]; then
    xinput set-prop 11 "Evdev Axis Inversion" 1, 0
    xinput set-prop 11 "Evdev Axes Swap" 1
    xrandr -o left
fi

if [ "$action" == "normal" ]; then
    xinput set-prop 11 "Evdev Axis Inversion" 0, 0
    xinput set-prop 11 "Evdev Axes Swap" 0
    xrandr -o normal
fi

Touchscreen calibration scripts

If you use an external display (via the FN F3) the resolution of the display changes to a small square in the middle of the screen and the touchscreen is no longer calibrated. This script will set the calibration correctly for the screen resolution.

#!/bin/bash

Z=`/usr/bin/xrandr | grep current\ 1024\ x\ 600`

if [ "$Z" != "" ]; then
/usr/bin/xinput set-prop 11 "Evdev Axis Calibration" 0, 4094, 0, 4094
fi

if [ "$Z" == "" ]; then
/usr/bin/xinput set-prop 11 "Evdev Axis Calibration" 514, 3607, 0, 4094
fi

Lenovo Ideapad Tablet S10-T3 and Ubuntu 10.10

Things that do not work after a standard install of netbook Ubuntu

Possible Gotchas

How to fix the sound

Desktop or netbook Ubuntu?

Desktop customization suggestions

Rotate script

Touchscreen calibration scripts

Onboard scripts and comments

Multitouch howto

Jarnal customizations

Kindle