A lot of sites document the usage of linux in general on the P1510, and a couple of them use ubuntu in particular. So when I got a P1510 a couple of weeks ago, I thought that it would be the easiest thing in the world to make Ubuntu work flawless.
The touchscreen did of course not work out of the box – but Sam Engstrom have made a perl script which works as a driver for the touchscreen. It requires the perl module X11::GUITest, which is installed in the following way:
sudo apt-get install xorg-dev libc6-dev make wacom-tools
sudo perl -e ‘$ENV{FTP_PASSIVE} = 1; shell’ -MCPAN
cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
cpan> force install X11::GUITest
You may have to edit some settings when you are entering cpan. Everything else than the touchscreen, the tablet buttons and the ability to change the screen brightness are working out of the box. To change the screen brightness, you have to recompile the kernel with lcd and backlight support.
Some useful links:
Sam Engstrom: p1510
Brad Midgley: p1510
Ubuntu on a p1610
leog.net forum: p1510/p1610
leog.net forum: p1510/p1610
How to build a kernel