Slackware 13.1 on a netbook (asus eee 1005ha)
So far... so good
I love my netbook and the eye candy of kde... something else. everything works out of the box... no need to configure anything... desktop effects are cool bl abl abla BUT an important fn key combo stopped working. i can't disable the touch-pad to type and this is freaking me out. I've passed the last 3 days trying to get this working but no luck so far. Alien bob eee-acpi packages are not doing the magic.. Archlinux eee-acpi seem to be complete...but they do not work.. I've followed woush howto and no luck either... this netbook has a button top left corner that is supposed to kill the touchpad too... (not working) I'm having a feeling that i'm not doing this correctly... so i came to you for help. please advice |
I have the same netbook and yes, it doesn't work (used to work fine with kernel 2.6.29 of Slackware 13.0). Upgrading to 2.6.34 didn't solve the problem either. Obviously something is broken in the (experimental) eeepc driver.
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ok good
then i'm not going crazy. belive me... this stupid thing has me sleepless. |
I got a bigger hard drive for my netbook so i took the time to install arch linux on it as i was told their support for this laptop was way too good.
same issues after following their wikipage about this netbook. Fn+F3 doesn't work; neither the disable touchpad button on top left corner... I wonder if the source code found on asus webpage does have the trick for this... |
I had a similar problem with Slackware 13.0 on my AAO-D250-1417 netbook where the touchpad didn't respond to tap/click and a few of the function key combos didn't work.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...1417-a-774261/ The touchpad was fixed with a HAL policy change and the function keys were fixed with xbindkeys. These were temporary solutions because after I upgraded to current, now 13.1, everything worked without needing either fix. |
well
vertical scrolling works fine out of the box; but in windows (yes i refer to it) 2 finger tap emulates middle click and 3 finger tap emulates right click... I'm trying (actually failed miserably) to enable that feature as it won't wear down the tochpad buttons. This is what works out of the box: close lit suspend to ram or disk... not sure what it does but i have to wake the system up and type in my password Fn+f1 <-------- sleep/suspend to ram (don't know exactly what it does... but it does it) Fn+F5 <-------- decrease screen brightness works Fn+F6 <-------- increase screen brightness works Fn+F7 <-------- disable screen works I've been unable to activate Fn+F3 (disable touchpad) or get a response from the silver button on top left corner for this purpose. I'm reading how to setup xbindkeys but nevertheless i can't get the imput for the Fn key.. anyhow, i've enabled the toggle touchpad as follows using the win key (picked as Meta by kde) and F3 i call the following script Code:
#!/bin/bash I'm thinking into trying the customized xandros distro that asus has for download on this machine and check what/how they do it... I'll be in touch if I find the time to do so |
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is this setup for the 1005ha?
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I'm also using Slackware 13.1 on the 1005ha. I used acpi_listen which returns 00000037 for both the touchpad toggle buttons. I was using Alien Bob's eeepc-acpi-scripts package so presumably could just add a few lines to the /etc/apci/actions/hotkey.sh file and use the lines mentioned by kernel-P4N1C above in a separate file. I gave this a try and it didn't do anything..in /var/log/messages I get things like this:
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Jun 13 14:03:48 darkstar logger: ACPI group hotkey / action ATKD is not defined |
@trumpet_tom
so far I haven't found a way to have these things running using acpi. I disable the touchpad by running the script (see previous post) and Meta+F3 on kde. anyways, the beauty of slackware is precisely having to find your way to solve this kind of stupid issues. |
Done it!
Make a file called /etc/acpi/events/touchpad-toggle (or call it whatever you want): Code:
event=hotkey ATKD 00000037 Code:
#!/bin/bash Code:
chmod +x /etc/acpi/actions/touchpad-toggle.sh |
well
i did what you suggested and it didn't worked acpi_listen show nothing when i do Fn+F3 i only have response for F6, F5 and F1 (fn+f7 turn off the screen but has no output on console) these are the one that works. my console output Fn+F1 Code:
weput@weput-netbook:~$ acpi_listen Code:
video LCDD 00000087 00000000 Code:
video LCDD 00000086 00000000 Code:
battery BAT0 00000081 00000001 |
I use "su tom" because if you try running xrandr as root it doesn't work. So you have to run xrandr as the currently logged in user, in my case "tom".
I'm finding that my script doesn't work until I restart acpid (/etc/rc.d/rc.acpid restart), dunno what that's about. Either way if acpi_listen isn't registering the key presses, that's a separate issue. Are you sure the eeepc_laptop module is loaded? I had to put a line in /etc/lilo.conf to make it work. Code:
append = "acpi_osi=Linux" |
I have the same laptop, had the same issue, and made the same solution (although I still use 13.0).
My theory about why synclient won't load is that the driver is started with X, and when acpid initially runs it is 'not aware' of X. I used to do the same as you (restart acpi), but I found that I could unload the psmouse module (modprobe -r psmouse), which disabled the touchpad but allowed my usb mouse to continue functioning, then I reload when I want it back (modprobe psmouse). Also something is wrong with my driver, so I have to use synclient guestmouseoff=0/1 Also the line you (and me) had to put into lilo is because of something in the kernel (although I don't need it for the generic .29 kernel that came with 13.0, only my compiled .32 version). As an aside, I could give you some acpi scripts for volume, wireless and power management (auto cpu-scaling plus brightness, since I don't run a power manager). |
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