[Debian-eeepc-devel] Touchpad on 901

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Phil Endecott, Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 03:22:59PM +0100 |=-
> 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.

The touchpad on my eee 901 works just fine (with the generic PS/2 
mouse  driver in x.org). I can scroll up/down when sliding two fingers 
over it. I can click by tapping with one finger. I can click the 
second mouse button when tappingg with two fingers. I can even click 
the third mouse button by tapping with three fingers.

I've heard that the Xandros install on the 901 has more features, 
namely zooming in/out in applications "that support it" by sliding two 
fingers in opposite directions/towards each other. This doesn't work 
here.

> I just wanted to check if anyone here is aware of any fixes or ongoing 
> investigation into this.  Presumably the default ASUS Linux has a 
> patch, but I don't think the Xorg license requires them to publish it.  
> But maybe they have done anyway.  Does anyone here know anything?

I've read somewhere that the touchpad in 901 is not synaptics but 
'Alps' something. I don't know if Asus published anything, but if they 
did, the logical place to look for it is the source tarball 
distributed from their site.

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