Beginner Troubles

[Leszek Lesner]

Am 14.02.2014 19:14, schrieb Ali Linx:
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> On 02/14/2014 10:03 PM, Bob Grasper wrote:
>> Hi All.
>>
>> I am a linux newby (I know - what a pain, you may be thinking. I am
>> trying to breathe new life into a netbook that had Win XP on it. I
>> have very little experience of linux at all. Here's the problem: The
>> manufacturer of my netbook has released Linux Drivers and config
>> stuff for the netbook. This is badly needed for the trackpad made by
>> Elantech. The cursor jumps around crazily with the default Lubuntu
>> setup and this makes typing REALLY hopeless.
>
> Hi,
>
> I have reported that months ago, yet nothing happened :)
>
> https://lists.launchpad.net/lubuntu-qa/msg03075.html
>
> If you find a way to solve this issue (which is only with Lubuntu by
> the way), please let me know :)
This is a different issue here I guess.
As the elantech touchpad is not recognized and so the sensitivity for a
normal mouse is in use. (The synaptic driver was fixed when it comes to
this as far as I know)


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>>
>> I have downloaded a the set of drivers and config files from ASUS
>> from here:
>>
>> http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=30&s=1&m=Eee+PC+1000HE&os=17&hashedid=Ues16Gw2OcqSjUN
>> <http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=30&s=1&m=Eee+PC+1000HE&os=17&hashedid=Ues16Gw2OcqSjUNt>
>>
Instead of installing this driver please try creating the file
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/elantech.conf .
You need root rights for this.
So if the directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d does not exist create it with
the terminal command
sudo mkdir -p /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
Then you need to create the conf file and open it up with a text editor
to paste the config. You can either use a graphical text editor like
leafpad or a console based (if you know how to use it though).
The following describes how to open up the leafpad application with root
rights.
gksudo leafpad /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/elantech.conf

Paste the following configuration into the file and save it. After a
reboot the touchpad driver should work better. If it does not work at
all remove the file again (sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/elantech.conf)
otherwise try to tweak the settings (especially the delta values). For a
reference I got this config from a EeePC user @ ubuntuforums (
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1106542 )
Hope that helps

> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"
> Driver "synaptics"
> Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
> Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
> Option "MaximumTapTime" "200"
> Option "ClickTime" "50"
> Option "MaxTapMove" "320"
> Option "MaximumDoubleTapTime" "5"
> Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
> Option "VertEdgeScroll" "0"
> Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
> Option "SingleTapTimeout" "1"
> Option "FastTabs" "1"
> Option "VScrollEmuOff" "1"
> Option "VertScrollDelta" "80"
> Option "SHMConfig" "1"
> Option "CircularScrolling" "1"
> Option "CircScrollTrigger" "8"
> Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.14"
> Option "TapButton3" "3"
> Option "TapButton2" "2"
> EndSection