Asus Eee PC 901 trackpad only working when Shift pressed to load GRUB?
Recently my Asus Eee PC 901's touchpad broke, but recently I have installed Linux Mint 12 and Xubuntu 11.10, and noticed that I have the issue unless I manually enter GRUB and select the kernel. It is the first on the list, so should be 0 in the grub settings, and so should boot automatically. When I have done this, however, it works perfectly. When not, the touchpad does not work, the keyboard seems to have Ctrl pressed in the TTYs (I try and enter my name and it prints ^B^E^N even though I typed ben. Is there a way to fix this? Or get GRUB to be forced to show? Also, would a new touchpad fix it?
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You haven't said which Grub you're using (Grub2 or legacy), and it would be helpful to have your grub.cfg or menu.lst file, but in the absence it sounds as though it all comes right when you introduce a bit of delay in the booting process. I'd suggest that you check that in the boot options you have ro and root=/dev/whatever or root=UUID=whatever. |
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I meant just to open it, read-only, by double clicking, scrolling down to the first real menuentry, and looking to see if in the line staring linux there is ro root=UUID=whatever. But it might be just as well to run Code:
sudo update-grub |
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ro root=UUID= |
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I suggest you try, first, Code:
sudo update-grub Code:
grep 'ro ' /boot/grub/grub.cfg Code:
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=UUID=45f08fa9-ed38-4518-8053-9ad23f5ead2c ro quiet splash If for some reason there is still no ro in the boot options, you could try editing the file /etc/default/grub: Code:
gksu gedit /etc/default/grub Save the file, and run update-grub as before. Then check again using grep, and then reboot. |
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Find the line that says "GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT= "and comment it out. I'd also edit the timeout line to say something like "GRUB_TIMEOUT=10" Then run update-grub again. If after that you still can't get the touchpad, then I'm out of ideas. For grub information, see: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html |
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