I just installed eb3.0 nbr in a dualboot with xp on a 1000he with kernel 2.6.30. At first I got an error message saying that the touchpad was not enabled. The touchpad seemed to be working fine, but I decided to try to do something about the error message anyway (d'oh!). I followed the wiki on setting up the xorg.conf, thinking that would resolve any problems with the touchpad. But as soon as I made the change indicated there, I got this strange behavior from the tray. With every other click the screen resolution changes, cycling through all the possibilities. I can't get the menu to make any other changes--it just changes the screen res. I reverted to the old xorg.conf, but to no avail. I tried to make the changes recommended in the guides under acpi issues (the guide for screen res problems, and the one for changing video problems, as well siege's guide or slow video--though I haven't set up a ramdisk yet), but ran into a couple of problems:

1. if I run "sudo apt-get install netbook-dkms" I get the result "E: Couldn't find package netbook-dkms". And when I run "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" I get "The following packages have been kept back: linux-restricted-modules-generic 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove, and 1 not upgraded"

2. I replaced my /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the one indicated in the screen resolution guide, but do not know how to find the .fdi file in order to delete it.

Any advice would be welcome.

Did you let the package upgrade overwrite your /etc/default/eeepc-acpi file, and also did you delete the /etc/default/eeepc-acpi.local file?

What version of Eee PC ACPI are you installing, if it's 0.x series don't install netbook-dkms but it sounds like 1.x series so you can download it here:

http://www.statux.org/software/pool/mai ... book-dkms/

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I installed the netbook-dkms from the link. I think I'm running a 1.x version of Eee PC ACPI.

I'm not sure how to answer your other question. Gedit shows me that I have a /etc/default/eeepc-acpi.local file. Should I delete it in gedit? I'm not sure whether the package upgrade overwrote my /etc/default/eeepc-acpi file. I did nothing to prevent that. But if it didn't happen automatically during the upgrade process, I did not do it manually.

Is the screen resolution cycling a problem you recognize, by the way?

you can delete everything in it in gedit, yes.

There is a known compatibility issue with the older config from 0.x and the newer config from 1.x.

I selected the entire text in gedit and deleted, and saved. I wasn't sure about the save, since that leaves an empty header, but otherwise my deletion would not have worked.

This by itself has not solved my original problem. Am I wrong to think that this is an xorg.conf problem?

It isn't an xorg problem, the issue is that your utils version and your config file version don't match.

What have you done to upgrade, did you download packages from sourceforge?

I did everything in siege's video patch, except I haven't mounted a ramdisk yet. I don't know if that would entail any sourceforge downloads. But I haven't gone to sourceforge directly.

Step 1 of Step 0 of siege's guide:

Most up to date version of eeepc-acpi-utilities and eeepc-tray is, respectfully:
1.1.48 and 1.0.17

So, let's find this out the easy way.


What versions do you have installed ??

Here's the grep output:

ii eeepc-acpi-utilities 1.0.46 ACPI utilities for EeePC Netbook computers
ii eeepc-laptop-dkms 0.1 Eee PC laptop driver in DKMS format.
ii eeepc-tray 1.0.17 Notification Tray icon for EeePC ACPI Utilit

It looks like the utilities are out of date, as you suspected. I had assumed that since I downloaded the eb 3.0 iso image day before yesterday that it would have the most up to date utilities. Is it just a matter of updating the utilities, and if so, where will I find it?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/eeepc-acpi-util/

downloaded and installed, but installer says "same version is already installed", and my grep output comes out the same as before.

Make sure you download both packages, only one is listed on the download page. That's a limitation at sourceforge.

I take that back! The main button on that page is for eeepc-tray, and I downloaded that by mistake. But there is a link to another page with eeepc-utilities 1.1.48. I have downloaded it and am in the process of installing it as I type. It takes a long time apparently.

It's installed and the problem is solved. Everything seems to be working perfectly now. Thank you so much for all your help!

No problem, just do us a favor, if you see others with the problem please help them too.