Asus EeePC T91MT touchscreen drivers blacklisted

[H3g3m0n]

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The Asus EeePC T91MT doesn't work out of the box. There are drivers in the kernel however for some reasons they are blacklisted and require a kernel.

I'm not sure why they are blacklisted, they seem to work fine for everyone. The drivers don't seem to work with multi-touch or pressure sensitivity but they are better than nothing.

There is a guide here showing the lines that need to be commented out:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1507489

Other people with problems:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1595220
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1601888
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1592336

This is a problem on 10.10 and 10.04 (also previous versions didn't have drivers but they required evtouch rather than usb-hid changes).

It would of course be nice to get full multitouch, there are demonstrations of it working here:
http://www.paxanima.net/?p=106
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei58CkPxDr0

I believe the ENAC people are the ones working on the drivers:
http://www.lii-enac.fr/en/projects/shareit/linux.html

Also see:
http://bitbucket.org/paxanima/t91mtd/wiki/Home

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi H3g3m0n,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 667284

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Adam Glenn (gekitsuu)]

AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 0: ALC269 Analog [ALC269 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 0: ALC269 Analog [ALC269 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: aglenn 1932 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'MID'/'HDA Intel MID at 0xf3f38000 irq 23'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC269'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0269,10438398,00100004'
   Controls : 10
   Simple ctrls : 6
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=9f86e873-b5e0-44c7-a6f8-cd91b50e8b2f
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer INC. T91MT
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=bcda6314-7448-4a5a-9d4f-2281efa2650d ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-2.6.38-8-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.38-8-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.52
Tags: natty
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 11/26/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0601
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: T91MT
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: x.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0x00000000
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.chassis.version: x.x
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0601:bd11/26/2009:svnASUSTeKComputerINC.:pnT91MT:pvrx.x:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnT91MT:rvrx.xx:cvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:ct10:cvrx.x:
dmi.product.name: T91MT
dmi.product.version: x.x
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.

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This is still affecting me, I just ran the requested command and I have all the latest patches

[H3g3m0n (h3g3m0n)]

Touchscreen is now working out of the box for me in 11.04.

Unfortunately the T91's have Intel GMA500's in them so the gfx drivers/resolution/rotation/hardware acceleration/composite is broken but thats a different issue (and has been like that for a while now).

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