I demand that Shawn Lamson may or may not have written... > On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:36:30 +0000 > Darren Salt <[email protected]> wrote: >> I demand that Shawn Lamson may or may not have written... [snip] >>> Also, aside from the situation where it wouldn't boot that kernel, the >>> only other 2 issues i had were >>> a) elantech touchpad mouse wouldn't accpet two-finger clicking (emulate >>> 3rd mouse button) ... [...] I read up on it a bit, and i could try fixing >>> it using some HAL setting or synclient ... >> Well... X/[synaptics] default to not enabling tapping...
> I have a steep learning curve, I haven't tinkered that much with kernel/OS > in the past few years, and a lot has changed recently ... I didn't know > about HAL. I was able to get this working (Elantech touchpad) okay. This is good... > Originally it had been identified as a Logitech mouse and it actually > worked fine - the new kernel config just exposed an existing issue... > creating /etc/hal/fdi/policy/touchpad.fdi as you suggested on > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/ElantechTouchpad worked. Expect more fun like this: at some point, that's going to have to be translated into a udev rule (or a set of udev rules). [snip] >>> * last time I tried 2.6.32 it was a no-go on suspend-to-ram -> resume but >>> maybe things have changed in a week or so... i do use the rt2860 driver >>> and i keep seeing "back and forth" on it in the various changelogs and >>> bug reports... >> One thing which you should try: in /etc/default/eeepc-acpi-scripts, set >> PWR_CLOCK_AC=1. This *shouldn't* make any difference, but it may well end >> up making things work normally again. > setting PWR_CLOCK_AC=1 in eeepc-acpi-scripts did the trick, i've been > testing it for the last few days and it's unshakeable now, thanks, that was > a long road. FWIW, that's set the default to normal speed, rather than overclocked. > is there another mailing list (debian eeepc) for "general questions" that > are less development related? I see there is an IRC channel, I guess I'll > lurk there. That's about it. [snip] > Thanks again Darren - I hope Santa was good to you, and have a happy New > Year. Once again: humbug! ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Vermin Media user? http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000646.html A liberal is too poor to be a capitalist and too rich to be a communist. _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
