[Debian-eeepc-devel] Touchpad on 901

[Phil Endecott]

Phil Endecott wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> As I understand it, the touchpad on the '901 is not properly recognised 
> by Debian's X (see HowTo / Configure / Xorg / Touchpad Scrolling in the 
> Wiki).  It is treated as a "default mouse", which  means that you can't 
> enable/disable features like two-finger scrolling, tap-to-click etc.  
> (For me, both of these features are ON by default - but it seems as if 
> other people find them OFF by default.)  IIUC it's necessary for the X 
> synaptics driver and/or the kernel synaptics driver to recognise it, 
> which neither does.
>
> I just wanted to check if anyone here is aware of any fixes or ongoing 
> investigation into this.

The answer turns out to be a new kernel driver which can be found here:

http://arjan.opmeer.net/elantech/

This isn't in 2.6.27, but I'm guessing that it will be merged in time 
for 2.6.28.  It seems to work for me; I can toggle tap-to-click using 
the gsynaptics utility.


Phil.