Tablet Configuration Information

General Configuration

Hardware

There are three variants of the Tablet PC currently in use by the physics department, the older HP/Compaq tc1100, the HP/Compaq tc4200, and the HP/Compaq 2710p. The major differences between the three tablets are the color scheme, hard-drive size, video card, and processor.

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Linux Partition Configuration

Detailed notes on the Linux configuration

Unsupported Features

Under Linux there are a couple of tablet features that are unsupported, please see Linux Problems for details.

Configured Software

The Linux partition of the tablets has a large selection of software configured by default, including several proprietary packages that cannot be freely distributed or downloaded.

Tablet Differences

Item	tc1100	tc4200	2710p
Color Scheme	Silver	Black	Silver
Hard-Drive	40 GB	60 GB	100 GB
Graphics Card	NVidia GeForce 4 Go	Intel 900	Intel GM965/GL960
Processor	Intel Pentium M 753 1.20 GHz	Intel Pentium M 750 1.86 GHz	Intel Core 2 Duo 1.20 GHz (each)
Display	10.4" TFT XGA	12.1" TFT XGA	12.1" TFT VGA
USB Ports	2	3	2
TV Out	No	Yes	No
Wireless Card	ipw2100 (a/b/g)	ipw2200 (b/g)	ipw4965 (a/g/n)

This is a preliminary list, please update as necessary.

Proprietary Software

National Instruments LabVIEW Programming language for working with lab instruments

Wolfram's Mathematica Application for solving complex math analytically

Macromedia Flash Player Plug-in for accessing Macromedia Flash online content

NVidia Graphics Driver Driver for the NVidia GeForce 4 Go graphics card (tc1100 only)

IDS uEye Camera Driver Driver for the cameras used in the Modern Lab

Custom Software

uEye Graphical application for getting optical data from a camera

glScope Audio oscilloscope program

LabVIEW Oscilloscope Interface A LabVIEW interface for Tektronix Oscilloscope

Open-Source Software

Audacity Audio wave-form recorder/editor

gcc GNU compiler for C, C++, Fortran, Java, and other popular programming languages

GIMP Image manipulation program

GNOME Popular graphical desktop environment for Linux

Google Chrome Web Browser from Google

Gpaint MSPaint-like program

Gperiodic Interactive periodic table

Inkscape Vector drawing program

Kile LaTeX document editor for KDE

With the LaCheck LaTeX syntax checker

Mozilla Firefox Standards-Compliant web browser

mplayer Media Player for Linux

mplayerplug-in Embedded plugin for playing media in mozilla web browsers

Octave Numerical analysis program similar to MatLab

With the QtOctave GUI front-end for Octave

OpenOffice.org Workplace productivity suite

SANE Imaging drivers and applications for Linux (scanners, cameras, etc.)

Wine Windows compatibility layer

Xournal Tablet collaboration software

Notice: Very Incomplete List