Asus touchpad disabling doesn't work. Found the error in getXconsole.

[Vegard Loekken]

After following the trace of my /etc/acpi/asus-touchpad.sh, I found that the error was in the getXconsole function of /usr/share/acpi-support/power-funcs.

When asus-touchpad.sh is runned, it is runned as root (understandably), but that makes this line fail:

displaynum=`ps t tty$console | sed -n -re 's,.*/X .*:([0-9]+).*,\1,p'`

since that only gets root's processes.

I changed it to:

displaynum=`ps at tty$console | sed -n -re 's,.*/X .*:([0-9]+).*,\1,p'`

and now it works like a charm.

Just thaught I should mention it, so that the authors can fix it, but also so that other users with the same problem can fix it themself.

Extra information:
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10

acpi-support:
 *** 0.138 0
        500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

why do you have an X server running as non-root?

[Vegard Loekken (vegard-loekken)]

I don't. This is wierd. I tried resetting the "displaynum=..."-line back to original, and now it works. Must have been something else I changed, but I can't see what.

Anyway, sorry about making an unnecessary bug report.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

no worries! closing the bug report.