I really do love Linux, but God damn, I hate it too.
Finalizing my install and taking care of all the little odds and ends and it's driving me nuts.
First off. My Lilliput goes bonkers when X starts. Cycling the power button fixes it, but hey, I'm lazy.
So a little googling and I came up with this script (called togglemonitor) which I call from my Xstart file.
#!/bin/sh
/usr/X11R6/bin/xset dpms force off
/usr/X11R6/bin/xset dpms force on
Works like a charm. Monitor turns off and back on and everything's dandy. This would be one of those things I love.
Getting the touchscreen set up on the new laptop, would be one of those things I hate. I'd really like to get udev working so it doesn't screw everything up when i add devices. Docs suck. My rules appear to be correct but don't work.
After hours upon hours of searching and tweaking, I give up. I just hooked up everything that I might want on a semi-regular basis and there it will stay. If I hot plug things in later, shouldnt' have an effect.
The mouse and touchscreen are conflicting. After looking at half a dozen or so examples of getting this to work, (none did), I came up with a mix and match that did.
So now it's on to the wireless. I really won't need it much, but while I've got it out, I figure I might as well set it up.
Oh brother. Docs suck and are all over the place. Adding to the confusion was that it looks like the driver was already installed, and the red herrings of all the built in tools which did nothing.
Turns out you need to install a firmware file seperately.
On the plus side, just about everything I need for the next few months is done. As soon as I finish loading up a few more gigs of music, It will be in on a permanent basis :)
