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As promised, here is a version of the mouse driver for Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24.17. Warning - I am not a kernel developer, just a console developer who was tired of the tap to click...so your mileage may vary. This is most definitely a hack...
http://rapidshare.com/files/118458404/mouse.tar.gz.html
It is compiled with the latest kernel, so you probably want to update first. It may work with the older one.
Unzip the tarball into your home folder. Backup and replace your existing kernel mouse driver with this one...
cd /lib/modules/2.6.24-17-generic/kernel/drivers/input/mouse
sudo cp psmouse.ko psmouse.ko.sav
sudo cp /home/username/mouse/psmouse.ko .
sudo reboot
If you want the Elantech graphical touchpad program, download and install the following package:
http://update.eeepc.asus.com/p900/pool/ … 4_i386.deb
You should also be able to use the standard gsynaptics package if you want.
Please be my guest if you want to package this up nicer or give it a permanent home!
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What exactly is this supposed to do? I read the other threads you participating on this and all I got was "900 uses the Elantech touchpad and not the Synaptic". However my touchpad works just fine as is. What is broken that this fixes?
Not trying to be argumentative, just consider me clueless 
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Yes, the touchpad works. But if you want to turn off the tap-to-click, adjust sensitivity, turn on horizontal/vertical edge scrolling, for example, you are out of luck unless you use this driver.
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Ahh, now I get it. Will this also remove the two finger scrolling?
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If you want. You can turn any feature on or off.
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Looks like it works with kernel 2.6.24.16 too. At least the mouse still moves after replacing the module and rebooting.
The gsynaptics app seems a little temperamental - After tweaking (trying to) some settings, my mouse suddenly freezes as soon as X starts.
Had to revert to my backed up xorg.conf
/Zilver
Last edited by ZilverZurfarn (2008-05-30 3:44:01 am)
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ZilverZurfarn wrote:
Looks like it works with kernel 2.6.24.16 too. At least the mouse still moves after replacing the module and rebooting.
The gsynaptics app seems a little temperamental - After tweaking (trying to) some settings, my mouse suddenly freezes as soon as X starts.
Had to revert to my backed up xorg.conf
/Zilver
Did you use gsynaptics or gsynaptics_elantech?
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The driver worked on Arch Linux (kernel-eee 2.6.24.4) as well by recompiling psmouse module with tweaking a source code a bit. On Arch, vertical/horizontal scroll works fine. Although multi-touch functions don't work, it doesn't matter. Enabling old-style edge scroll is a great improvement for me. Thanks!!
BTW, does Ubuntu (Hardy) implement some multi-touch functions by its own way? They work out of the box despite that touchpad is misrecognized as Logitech and loading synaptics driver fails on X.
Last edited by elbecko (2008-05-30 2:53:01 pm)
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Not sure if Ubuntu (or other distros) have any multi touch functionality.
If you are having config problems, make sure you have the following section in your xorg.conf file. It may not be in there by default...
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
Option "SHMConfig" "true"
Option "MaxTapTime" "0"
EndSection
The line for the device may be specific to having used the graphical config file. So you may want to start off with:
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
I did test the driver with other USB mice plugged in as well. I am not having any config problems on my Eee 900, but I am using gsynaptics_elantech from the Eee 900 repository.
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Thanks for your work! This has saved me alot of trouble. I put your compiled driver on my blog server, so it can be downloaded and extracted with the following:
wget 'http://corey-m.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/mouse.tar.gz'
tar zxvf mouse.tar.gz
Last edited by threehundredfps (2008-05-31 9:48:16 pm)
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I found that the driver causes some call trace shown in dmesg after resume (See output below). This happens on both Ubuntu and Arch. Practically it's harmless, I guess, but a bit annoying.
Is the guy who wrote the code planning to update it?
sysfs: duplicate filename 'reg_10' can not be created WARNING: at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/fs/sysfs/dir.c:424 sysfs_add_one() Pid: 5956, comm: pm-suspend Tainted: PF 2.6.24-16-generic #1 [<c01d29af>] sysfs_add_one+0x9f/0xe0 [<c01d22af>] sysfs_add_file+0x4f/0x90 [<c01d3ef4>] sysfs_create_group+0x54/0xf0 [<f8b6255a>] elantech_init+0x1fa/0x3c0 [psmouse] [<f8b5da94>] psmouse_extensions+0xd4/0x250 [psmouse] [<f8b5e3de>] psmouse_reconnect+0xbe/0x110 [psmouse] [<c028ca90>] atkbd_reconnect+0x50/0xe0 [<c0284bc1>] serio_reconnect_driver+0x41/0x50 [<c028555d>] serio_resume+0x3d/0x50 [<c028101a>] dpm_resume+0x5a/0x170 [<c0281144>] device_resume+0x14/0x20 [<c0152f98>] suspend_devices_and_enter+0x58/0x100 [<c015319e>] enter_state+0x15e/0x190 [<c0153262>] state_store+0x92/0xe0 [<c01531d0>] state_store+0x0/0xe0 [<c01d1c42>] subsys_attr_store+0x32/0x50 [<c01d1fe1>] sysfs_write_file+0xc1/0x110 [<c01d1f20>] sysfs_write_file+0x0/0x110 [<c018d7e9>] vfs_write+0xb9/0x170 [<c018df21>] sys_write+0x41/0x70 [<c01043c2>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6b/0xa9 [<c0310000>] vcc_getsockopt+0x150/0x170 ======================= elantech.c: failed to create sysfs attributes, error: -17
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Good find!!!
The version we are using is from Xandros, so they don't sleep or hibernate because of the fast init and shutdown code.
Debugging this - the driver was leaking memory - it is possible to either run out of kernel memory or crash with a leak upon resuming from sleep too many times.
Here is my patched version...give it a try. It should reinit correctly from sleeping.
http://rapidshare.com/files/119439376/m … ar.gz.html
I also applied a later Xandros patch - not sure why they added their extra code. It does reset unknown registers to a default state upon initialization. The original patch was from the version that we all got with our Eee 900's.
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StewieGriffin wrote:
Here is my patched version...give it a try. It should reinit correctly from sleeping.
http://rapidshare.com/files/119439376/m … ar.gz.html
Call trace issue has gone. Memory leaking looks fixed as far as I checked the source. Thanks!!
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StewieGriffin wrote:
Did you use gsynaptics or gsynaptics_elantech?
gsynaptics_elantech - Tried again today with new psmouse.ko with the same result. Mouse froze as soon as I tried gsynaptics. Had to revert to old xorg.conf and original psmouse.ko to at least get my twofinger vert scroll back...
/Zilver
Last edited by ZilverZurfarn (2008-06-02 7:43:11 am)
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threehundredfps wrote:
Thanks for your work! This has saved me alot of trouble. I put your compiled driver on my blog server, so it can be downloaded and extracted with the following:
wget 'http://corey-m.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/mouse.tar.gz'
tar zxvf mouse.tar.gz
Can you make a new tar with the latest? Thanks!
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ZilverZurfarn wrote:
StewieGriffin wrote:
Did you use gsynaptics or gsynaptics_elantech?
gsynaptics_elantech - Tried again today with new psmouse.ko with the same result. Mouse froze as soon as I tried gsynaptics. Had to revert to old xorg.conf and original psmouse.ko to at least get my twofinger vert scroll back...
/Zilver
What kernel are you running under?
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Is there any way to get two finger scrolling working with this driver? Looking at 'symclient -m 100', it seems that up to three fingers are detected, but no touchpad movement registers for two and three fingers.
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StewieGriffin wrote:
What kernel are you running under?
The "original" 8.04 kernel - 2.6.24.16
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ZilverZurfarn wrote:
StewieGriffin wrote:
What kernel are you running under?
The "original" 8.04 kernel - 2.6.24.16
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I suspect that is the problem you are having with this precompiled driver for 2.6.24.17. If you know how to recompile it, you can try that for 2.6.24.16. There is some magic that goes on when modules communicate with the kernel to set parameters that I suspect is going bad on your box.
If you do update to 2.6.24.17, you will have to recompile your madwifi driver and your acpi driver.
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I have replaced the original psmouse.ko with the one provided. Yet I am still not sure how to configure the 3-finger multi-touch function. Any clue? Thanks for helping!
I keep receiving the following error message when using gsynaptics
** (gsynaptics:6119): WARNING **: Using synclient
(gsynaptics:6119): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_toggle_button_set_active: assertion `GTK_IS_TOGGLE_BUTTON (toggle_button)' failed
(gsynaptics:6119): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
(gsynaptics:6119): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
AND
Unknown parameter RotateRight
Unknown parameter RotateLeft
Unknown parameter ZoomIn
Unknown parameter ZoomOut
PLEASE HELP!
EEEPC 900
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StewieGriffin wrote:
If you know how to recompile it, you can try that for 2.6.24.16.
I tried "make" from the package (that's as fas as my Linux compile skills takes me!) but that didn't work...
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fuji001 wrote:
I have replaced the original psmouse.ko with the one provided. Yet I am still not sure how to configure the 3-finger multi-touch function. Any clue? Thanks for helping!
I keep receiving the following error message when using gsynaptics
** (gsynaptics:6119): WARNING **: Using synclient
(gsynaptics:6119): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_toggle_button_set_active: assertion `GTK_IS_TOGGLE_BUTTON (toggle_button)' failed
(gsynaptics:6119): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
(gsynaptics:6119): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
AND
Unknown parameter RotateRight
Unknown parameter RotateLeft
Unknown parameter ZoomIn
Unknown parameter ZoomOut
PLEASE HELP!
EEEPC 900
Make sure you are using kernel 2.6.24.17 (run Update Manager) and using the gynaptics_elantech package.
Let me know if you are still having troubles after that.
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StewieGriffin wrote:
fuji001 wrote:
I have replaced the original psmouse.ko with the one provided. Yet I am still not sure how to configure the 3-finger multi-touch function. Any clue? Thanks for helping!
I keep receiving the following error message when using gsynaptics
** (gsynaptics:6119): WARNING **: Using synclient
(gsynaptics:6119): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_toggle_button_set_active: assertion `GTK_IS_TOGGLE_BUTTON (toggle_button)' failed
(gsynaptics:6119): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
(gsynaptics:6119): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
AND
Unknown parameter RotateRight
Unknown parameter RotateLeft
Unknown parameter ZoomIn
Unknown parameter ZoomOut
PLEASE HELP!
EEEPC 900Make sure you are using kernel 2.6.24.17 (run Update Manager) and using the gynaptics_elantech package.
Let me know if you are still having troubles after that.
Yes, I am using 2.6.24-17-generic and gsynaptics-elantech_0.9.7-3asus4_i386.deb has been installed on my eeepc 900. It would be much appreciated if you would be able to help, Thanks!
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Hello StewieGriffin,
Would it be possible for you to provide us instructions of compiling the driver from source and configuring after installing the driver? Thank you very much!
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fuji001 wrote:
Hello StewieGriffin,
Would it be possible for you to provide us instructions of compiling the driver from source and configuring after installing the driver? Thank you very much!
Sure, first set up your machine to compile your Linux kernel...
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile
...the following is a bit simplified on purpose...
Run make menuconfig, and make sure you turn off debugging, otherwise you will have a slow, long compile.
Unzip my files into drivers/input/mouse. They will replace the files that are there. If there were any code changes/patches, you may have to merge instead of unzipping. You should whack all the .o and .ko and any other intermediate files.
Then run make modules - it will build everything the first time, then if you change your mouse stuff, it will only build that much quicker.
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