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["Justin Dugger" <jldugger@xxxxxxxxx>]

CC'd to the Toshiba Tablet team.

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Bulat <bulatkjug@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I noticed you updated the wiki page to reflect more recent testing.
>> Great!  I've stopped bothering because there's not a lot of attention
>> paid to it and the particular model is no longer made (the new M7 is
>> different I understand).

> I think, that yours also have TPM and 3D accelerometer.
> 3D accelerometer is used to park HDD heads when it detects that laptop
> is flying down from the table towards the floor. :)  Never tried to
> switch that feature on in Ubuntu, but it is possible - there are several
> ways of doing this described among some bug-reports on the launchpad.

>> Anyways, the update claims to have tablet rotation working
>> automatically.  Is this true?  I have a script or two that will
>> rotate, but nothing to detect a hardware rotation event.

> You can also use 3D accelerometer to automatically detect your tablet
> orientation and rotate screen as you go rotating your tablet, and it
> will go round and round. :)  There is a description of how to do this
> for IBM X41 in another bug-report on the launchpad.  I suppose, that one
> can manage to do this for M7 also (maybe some digging on the internet
> will be needed).

Do you have any links to these bugs? It'd be very handy to have.