asus touchpad toggling doesn't work (synclient)
Bug #314376 reported by
lumitoro
This bug affects 5 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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acpi-support (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: acpi-support
I have:
ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
F3Sc
1.0
Some of my laptop hotkeys don't work. Used "acpi_listen" command to see if they where generating an event and they are. For fn+F9 (toggle touchpad) key "acpi_listen" returns:
"hotkey ATKD 0000006b 00000001",
checked /etc/acpi/
"event=hotkey (ATKD|HOTK) 0000006b
action=
it's ok and tested the asus-touchpad.sh script that it's working fine.
I'm not sure this is acpi-support bug since the event is properly raised.
summary: |
- [Intrepid] acpi hotkey not working + asus touchpad toggling doesn't work (synclient) |
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It's reasonable that the asus-touchpad.sh script would work when run manually, but not when run by acpi-support; this script needs to connect to the X server to toggle the touchpad, and it doesn't do that, relying instead on an older insecure method of configuring the touchpad. This needs to be corrected, perhaps using the getXconsole function from power-funcs.