Question about the eeepc ACPI tray thing :S ;)

burning_rave · **Posted:** Sun May 17, 2009 8:04 pm

anything different from marx's eee-control app?

i'm more familiar with it, and would prefer it, so, could i install it, and there would be no long term effects?

i'm alright if i had to live with the default one, though

Thanks

EDIT:

Gaaah, don't worry guys, i think i will stay with the ACPI thing

although, another question, i don't want to install 'The Gimp', and there is a Gimp-help-common file in synaptic, but trying to completely remove it, will result in a lot more packages being removed, most for openoffice which i don't want.....

is it safe to un-install these? thanks

Guitaraholic · **Posted:** Sun May 17, 2009 8:38 pm

the help files are all tied in together im afraid.... personally id leave it all otherwise it does break alot of things

stanjam · **Posted:** Sun May 17, 2009 9:10 pm

Well, that is a bummer. I like eee-control. It allowed me to reassign hotbuttons so I could turn off this ^%$# touchpad. EeePC tray isn't able to do it (at least in the live version. I really wish there was a way we could configure things to automatically disable the touchpad when I plug in my mouse.

While right now I am not getting the trouble I had in 2.0 with the touchpad randomly sending my cursor off somewhere while typing, I would really like to assign a button to turn the thing off!

burning_rave · **Posted:** Sun May 17, 2009 9:20 pm

Guitaraholic wrote:

the help files are all tied in together im afraid.... personally id leave it all otherwise it does break alot of things

but the things it wants to remove, i don't want (openoffice, thunderbird)

buuuuuuuut, if you say so, you know more.....

thank you!!!

TRiPgod · **Posted:** Sun May 17, 2009 11:34 pm

stanjam wrote:

It allowed me to reassign hotbuttons so I could turn off this ^%$# touchpad.

You can do that with eeepc-acpi-utilities, too. The utility works off of scripts and keystrokes.

stanjam · **Posted:** Sun May 17, 2009 11:38 pm

TRiPgod wrote:

stanjam wrote:

It allowed me to reassign hotbuttons so I could turn off this ^%$# touchpad.

You can do that with eeepc-acpi-utilities, too. The utility works off of scripts and keystrokes.

yeah, if it worked, which right now it isn't. Hoping there will be a fix soon

TRiPgod · **Posted:** Sun May 17, 2009 11:42 pm

fewt's gonna have a lot of questions to answer when he comes back to visit

fewt · **Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 12:18 am

stanjam wrote:

TRiPgod wrote:

stanjam wrote:

It allowed me to reassign hotbuttons so I could turn off this ^%$# touchpad.

You can do that with eeepc-acpi-utilities, too. The utility works off of scripts and keystrokes.

yeah, if it worked, which right now it isn't. Hoping there will be a fix soon

This will configure your touchpad:

http://www.statux.org/wiki/index.php?ti ... imizations

For WIFI, make sure you check the BIOS and it's enabled before running the diagnostic.

;-)

jordanchap · **Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 1:10 am

Do we need to install your eeepc acpi utilities before we do this? I also want to be able to disable the touchpad.

fewt · **Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 1:11 am

jordanchap wrote:

Do we need to install your eeepc acpi utilities before we do this? I also want to be able to disable the touchpad.

No, they are already integrated.

jordanchap · **Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 1:16 am

Ok thanks. I am looking at http://www.statux.org/wiki/index.php?ti ... imizations and I don't know what lspci is? Any help with that?

Oh, and is there a fix for bluetooth? I'm looking around and see maybe it's kernel problem and so there isn't one?

fewt · **Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 1:18 am

jordanchap wrote:

Ok thanks. I am looking at http://www.statux.org/wiki/index.php?ti ... imizations and I don't know what lspci is? Any help with that?

Oh, and is there a fix for bluetooth? I'm looking around and see maybe it's kernel problem and so there isn't one?

It's a command you run from the command line.

Go to Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

Type:

Code:

lspci

I'm not aware of a fix in 2.6.28, though I think it is fixed in 2.6.29.

jordanchap · **Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 1:21 am

Forgive a newbie but is there a way to update to the new kernel? I'd like to get a bluetooth headset enabled for Skype.

fewt · **Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 1:42 am

jordanchap wrote:

Forgive a newbie but is there a way to update to the new kernel? I'd like to get a bluetooth headset enabled for Skype.

There is a 2.6.29 kernel in the repository. I can't say that the Eeebuntu team supports it, but it exists.

Open a terminal, and:

Code:

sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.29-1-netbook linux-headers-2.6.29-1-netbook eeepc-laptop-dkms asus-eee-dkms

Select that kernel in Grub when you reboot.

I don't know how it's compiled, so I can't promise it fixes anything.

Guitaraholic · **Posted:** Mon May 18, 2009 11:31 am

we included the 28 kernel as we need to test the 29 kernel in more depth.... if we find no major issues we will run an update on the kernel pack so everyone get it

Question about the eeepc ACPI tray thing :S ;)

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