Touchpad disable button permanently disables touchpad until reboot
Ubuntu 9.04 AMD64 - Acer Aspire 5536
A togglable button is placed next to my touchpad to temporarily disable it, however once toggled it can't be turned on without rebooting. The backlight behind it still toggles. The button works perfectly under (*shiver*) Vista. I've tried the touchfreeeze utility, but it doesn't work for me. Constantly while typing I 'tap' the touchpad, emulating a click and moving my cursor somewhere else. This is a pain :( Does anyone know how I can configure my system to re-detect the mouse input from the touchpad once it is re-enabled? -william |
Try this to yield more information for us:
Immediately after toggling the touch pad off, give us the output of: Code:
tail /var/log/messages |
There is no change to the logs before and after toggling the button, even after toggling it back on.
Code:
Jul 16 20:38:06 AFKveyrdite kernel: [ 27.565907] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready |
Checked Xorg.0.log, syslog and the command lspci, nothing relevant.
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How does the thing appear in your dmesg? |
The following page should work.
http://www.linuxine.com/2008/06/how-...in-ubuntu.html I suggest create a custom udev script to set a name for the desire touchpad that matches the vendor ID and product ID. |
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Will try Electro |
I've added the whole InputDevice section to xorg.conf, as it did not exist.
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Section "InputDevice" . |
*bump*
Any clues? Will only bump this once (in this topic) |
If you get a message stating "Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled", common sense may tell you it could be a permission problem. If running the utility "synclient" using root or sudo and it still gives you problems, then it could be X11 or something else that is causing the problem.
BTW, do not use colors in post unless you know it will not blend with other colors. Orange is a bad color in this forum. Darker colors are better. Even better plain black works just fine. |
Sorry electro - I'm used to forums with only one style where colours contrast.
Thanks - it is a permission problem. I'll try changing the exec permissions of the executable. EDIT: Seemingly not - even while using superuser/root I still encounter the same problems. X11 problems are a pain to fix, but I'll check the documentation regarding synaptics. |
I'm running an Acer Aspire 4810T with Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 x86_64. I figured out how to get synclient working by doing the following:
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sudo cat >> /etc/hal/fdi/policy/shmconfig.fdi << EOF This allows me to use Code:
synclient TouchpadOff=0 Code:
synclient TouchpadOff=1 |
Any attempt to edit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/shmconfig.fdi gives me a permission denied, even as root. The file does not exist.
Should I boot into recovery mode-->root console and create the file? |
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