I have a new installation of Ubuntu 11.10 on a Dell Inspiron 17r Laptop, and the
FN+F3 key combination does not work.
Expected: pressing Fn+f3 should disable the touchpad
Outcome: Although a transparent pop-up shows up on the top right hand corner
notifying user that the touchpad is disabled, the touchpad is still in operation.
Older distros had option under mouse/pointer device option disable touch pad
when typing, but this is not available with 11.10.
Fix: Making it operational Fn+F3, adding an option under mouse/pointing device to
disable touchpad when typing, allowing configuration of Fn+F? keys
Relates to: ALPS driver, Synaptics, xorg config???
I tried many things to fix this problem: Installing Synoptics, defining custom key
combinations... unsuccessful
syndaemon -i 0.5 executed just fine.
gconftool-2 --set --type boolean /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled false
... this did not do anything. TouchPad works just fine, and it is not disabled even when I type (... and my chubby hands keep activating and clicking touchpad when I type). It might be because 11.10 distro does not have "/desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled" and I don't know where else to find the device.
I did reinstalled xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package but it did not help, neither installing xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-dev package helped
I saw xserver-xorg-input-synaptics:i386 package, but the synaptic package manager was unable to install (dependencies etc).
This might be a clue: when I run
$ synclient -l
Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?
obviouslly, some driver is loaded, since the trackpad works just fine, except disabling it is a problem (I could not find what command fn+f3 calls), so it is a mystery as for what package is used.
system-> preferemces->Mouse and trackpad (via Unity) in 11.10 distro does not even have the option of trackpad configuration.
here is the closest I got to the driver info:
$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ImPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_HD id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
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AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC269VB Analog [ALC269VB Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: martin 1493 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'PCH'/'HDA Intel PCH at 0xd0700000 irq 51'
Mixer name : 'Intel CougarPoint HDMI'
Components : 'HDA:10ec0269,102804d8,00100100 HDA:80862805,80860101,00100000'
Controls : 18
Simple ctrls : 10
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=a9083f1a-0ae9-48cb-b2cc-d22ee729e18f
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Dell System Inspiron N7110
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-13-generic root=UUID=74261e9f-d62b-4103-986f-75206c2d0a27 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-3.0.0-13-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-3.0.0-13-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.60
StagingDrivers: mei
Tags: oneiric running-unity staging
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 09/28/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A07
dmi.board.name: 05VJ58
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 0.1
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA07:bd09/28/2011:svnDellInc.:pnDellSystemInspironN7110:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn05VJ58:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr0.1:
dmi.product.name: Dell System Inspiron N7110
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
Hi Martin,
The kernel doesn't detect your Touchpad, so moving to there.
In the meanwhile, would you please help us document this bug, to do so, please open your terminal(
apport-collect 900417
Thanks.