[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#666946: eeepc-acpi-scripts: Please use xinput instead of synclient to handle touchpad

[recoverym4n at gmail.com]

Package: eeepc-acpi-scripts
Version: 1.1.10
Severity: wishlist


At least when using ASUS x101h eeepc, synclient doesn't actually do anything
as it fails with:

$ synclient -l
Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?

At the same time, it looks like that using xinput is actually the way of
handling input devices in current stable xserver-xorg, and using it allows
toggling touchpad and camera of x101h.

Patch attached to this bug report works for me, but obviously introduces an
extra dependency to eeepc-acpi-scripts.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages eeepc-acpi-scripts depends on:
ii  acpi-support-base      0.137-5           scripts for handling base ACPI eve
ii  acpid                  1:2.0.7-1squeeze3 Advanced Configuration and Power I
ii  pm-utils               1.3.0-3           utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  rfkill                 0.4-1             tool for enabling and disabling wi

Versions of packages eeepc-acpi-scripts recommends:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.23-3   Utilities for configuring and usin

Versions of packages eeepc-acpi-scripts suggests:
pn  aosd-cat       <none>                    (no description available)
pn  gnome-osd      <none>                    (no description available)
ii  ttf-dejavu     2.31-1                    Metapackage to pull in ttf-dejavu-
ii  ttf-liberation 1.05.2.20091019-4squeeze1 Fonts with the same metrics as Tim

-- Configuration Files:

-- no debconf information

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