Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Touchpad on 901
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:15:43PM -0400, David L. Johnson wrote: Ben Armstrong wrote: argh, sorry, i meant syndaemon So, what does that do? I have considerable trouble with touchpad-while-typing errors. I'd love for the touchpad to be disabled whenever the usb mouse is plugged in. Possible? Thanks, Ben: syndaemon is exactly what I wanted. David: you can manually disable it by using synclient TouchpadOff=1 It should be possible to do this automatically when you plug in a USB mouse, either with a udev rule or by using HAL somehow, but I haven't tried it. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u ___ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list Debian-eeepc-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Touchpad on 901
Eric Cooper wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:15:43PM -0400, David L. Johnson wrote: Ben Armstrong wrote: argh, sorry, i meant syndaemon So, what does that do? I have considerable trouble with touchpad-while-typing errors. I'd love for the touchpad to be disabled whenever the usb mouse is plugged in. Possible? Thanks, Ben: syndaemon is exactly what I wanted. David: you can manually disable it by using synclient TouchpadOff=1 It should be possible to do this automatically when you plug in a USB mouse, either with a udev rule or by using HAL somehow, but I haven't tried it. I tried the syndaemon instead, and it works reasonably well. While I don't think there is a great advantage in having the touchpad and mouse active simultaneously (I'm no fan of the touchpad in general), turning it off while typing is sufficient to keep me from suddenly jumping around the screen while I type. Thanks for the help. -- David L. Johnson And what if you track down these men and kill them, what if you killed all of us? From every corner of Europe, hundreds, thousands would rise up to take our places. Even Nazis can't kill that fast. -- Paul Henreid (Casablanca). ___ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list Debian-eeepc-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Touchpad on 901
David L. Johnson wrote: I tried the syndaemon instead, and it works reasonably well. One note: I had to modify my xorg.conf file to get syndaemon to work, adding Option SHMconfig on to the InputDevice section. -- David L. Johnson And what if you track down these men and kill them, what if you killed all of us? From every corner of Europe, hundreds, thousands would rise up to take our places. Even Nazis can't kill that fast. -- Paul Henreid (Casablanca). ___ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list Debian-eeepc-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Touchpad on 901
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:54:38PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: The answer turns out to be a new kernel driver which can be found here: http://arjan.opmeer.net/elantech/ This isn't in 2.6.27, but I'm guessing that it will be merged in time for 2.6.28. It seems to work for me; I can toggle tap-to-click using the gsynaptics utility. I like the two-finger scroll support a lot. Has anyone been able to get the equivalent of the disable touchpad while typing in the original Xandros? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u ___ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list Debian-eeepc-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Touchpad on 901
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:58:43 -0400 Eric Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the two-finger scroll support a lot. Has anyone been able to get the equivalent of the disable touchpad while typing in the original Xandros? synclient? ___ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list Debian-eeepc-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Touchpad on 901
Ben Armstrong wrote: argh, sorry, i meant syndaemon So, what does that do? I have considerable trouble with touchpad-while-typing errors. I'd love for the touchpad to be disabled whenever the usb mouse is plugged in. Possible? -- David L. Johnson Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't understand we like to call it something you can't understand, or indeed even pronounce. -- Douglas Adams ___ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list Debian-eeepc-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Touchpad on 901
Damyan Ivanov wrote: -=| Phil Endecott, Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 03:22:59PM +0100 |=- As I understand it, the touchpad on the '901 is not properly recognised by Debian's X (see HowTo / Configure / Xorg / Touchpad Scrolling in the Wiki). It is treated as a default mouse, which means that you can't enable/disable features like two-finger scrolling, tap-to-click etc. (For me, both of these features are ON by default - but it seems as if other people find them OFF by default.) IIUC it's necessary for the X synaptics driver and/or the kernel synaptics driver to recognise it, which neither does. The touchpad on my eee 901 works just fine (with the generic PS/2 mouse driver in x.org). I can scroll up/down when sliding two fingers over it. I can click by tapping with one finger. I can click the second mouse button when tappingg with two fingers. I can even click the third mouse button by tapping with three fingers. That's great if you're happy with those settings. The problem is that unless the device is recognised by the right driver, there's no way to enable/disable or tweak the settings. In my case, I would like to increase the threshold for tap-to-click: I have found myself accidentally clicking on things (including adverts on web pages!). I've read somewhere that the touchpad in 901 is not synaptics but 'Alps' something. I don't know if Asus published anything, but if they did, the logical place to look for it is the source tarball distributed from their site. Have you seen a tarball for the '901? I can only find them for the non-Atom models. I don't think they bother to produce them until someone threatens to sue. Phil. ___ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list Debian-eeepc-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
