Asus Eee PC 1001HA: jumping cursor and difficulty to turn off/ on the touchpad.
 

Dear forum members

Recently I bought a new netbook: Asus 1001HA,together with Win7. I shrinked the Windows partition and installed next to it Kubuntu 9.10 Netbook remix. When typing a message like this one, the cursor tends to jump unexpectedly to places above, below, left or right of it's current position: especially when typing too quickly. At another forum, I received an advise to turn off the touchpad when typing like this. At the Windows partition, there is a simple command to turn off and on the touchpad: fn—f3. At the Linux partition, there are already drivers for several other buttons collaborating with the fn button - but apparently NOT for the button combination fn-f3.That's why, I am wondering how to get such a driver. Or is there any command line script available which enables me to quickly turn off and turn on the touchpad?

Thx. for replying,

Bas Roufs.

Do you have the eeepc-acpi scripts installed? I use these with debian and both Fn-F3 and the touchpad button on the topleft successfully disable the touchpad. It looks like there is hope! :-)

If you do have these installed, which version are they?

What happens if you manually source /etc/acpi/lib/touchpad.sh ?

EDIT:
Ok. Manually sourcing that file won't help you to diagnose anything as it needs to be sourced from other files that are run by the hotkey handlers.

A good place to start is to run
and see what is output when the touchpad hotkey is pressed.

Hello

Thanks for your useful answer.
You ask:
> Do you have the eeepc-acpi scripts installed?

This idea look very useful. However I did not yet manage to install it from the Ubuntu repository.
I will get back to you soon.
Respectfully yours,

Bas.