Touchpad does not disable [SOLVED]

JulesR · **Posted:** Sat Jun 06, 2009 3:21 pm

Hi

I've run all updates and I've modified my xorg.conf as per the wiki to get rid of the Touchpad warning on startup on my 901.

I also added the /etc/hal/fdi/policy/shmconfig.fdi file as per fewt's wiki - did I need to? What does this do?

EeePC Tray now correctly signals the Touchpad on/off but it doesn't actually turn the touchpad off.

Any ideas? Happy to post relevant logs if you tell me what would be useful.

Installed:
eeepc-tray version 0.23a
eeepc-acpi-utilities version 1.0.46
kernel 2.6.28-12-netbook

Loving Base 3.0! Thanks to everyone involved.

Cheers

JulesR · **Posted:** Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:58 am

OK, at the risk of breaking etiquette by replying to my own post, but in the hope that this may be useful to users and developers....

The issue now solved, at least on my 901. I reverted to the original xorg.conf, which uses hal to set the input devices.

lshal and xinput list revealed hal was detecting the touchpad OK and installing the synaptics driver so I figured all that was need was to enable SHMConfig.

I modiified the /etc/hal/fdi/policy/shmconfig.fdi file listed in fewt's wiki as follows:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.product" string="ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad">
      <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">True</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

Everything works great now!

I haven't tried it yet, but am I right in thinking the other options listed in fewt's xorg.conf could also be added to this file to set them through hal? See here and here in the Ubuntu documentation.

ArcherTC · **Posted:** Mon Jun 08, 2009 5:21 pm

Worked on my 1000HE too. I've been searching for the solution for days. Thanks!!!

AndrewZ · **Posted:** Fri Jun 12, 2009 12:15 pm

Hello

I also modiified the /etc/hal/fdi/policy/shmconfig.fdi file per fewt's wiki but cannot disable the touchpad.
The tray messages are good - "enabled/disabled".
xorg.conf configgured per wiki as well.
Please advise what to check.Thanks!

ArcherTC · **Posted:** Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:38 pm

Sorry AndrewZ, just saw this post.

Did you restore xorg.conf to the original configuration (rather than using fewt's file from the wiki)? If not, try that.

AndrewZ · **Posted:** Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:52 pm

ArcherTC wrote:

Sorry AndrewZ, just saw this post.

Did you restore xorg.conf to the original configuration (rather than using fewt's file from the wiki)? If not, try that.

Ooops, missed that step. Restored the file and now switching works.
Thanks a lot!

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