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[Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Is the touchpad still incorrectly recognised in the beta version of Ubuntu?
If so, it would be worth to submit a bug report to the corresponding
xorg package:

apt-cache search xorg | grep input

choose the package, then do:

apport-bug package-name

and create submit the bug report via the browser,

Cheers,

Albert.

2010/4/4 Dinis Gökaydin <dgokaydin@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Using xinput did the trick. I had actually tried using xinput but directly
> on the (incorrectly recognised as) "ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse" but that
> didn't work, and I didn't know how to use it on evdaemon.
>
> However, just as a curiosity, the middle button was indeed introduced by
> evdaemon. Maybe that's related to the fact that my touchpad (I think it's an
> elantech as most asus) is incorrectly recognised, and evdaemon actually
> corrects what was wrong from the beginning.
>
> I still find it impossible to use two fingers for scrolling and a two finger
> tap for pasting. Basically every time I want to scroll just a bit I paste
> something. This can lead to serious diplomatic problems when writing
> emails...
>
> Thanks Tuomas, congrats on a great tool!
>
> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Tuomas Räsänen <tuos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I'll continue this top-posting thread by top-posting, even though it
>> gives me nasty shivers ;-). However, breaking the tradition now would
>> probably result in a quite messy post..
>>
>> I think that the middle-button-paste is handled by Xorg and is it's
>> default behavior. It has nothing to do with evdaemon. Evdaemon just
>> clones a device and repeats it's events when the filtering is disabled
>> and suppresses events when filtering is enabled. It does not alter
>> device's behavior. So middle-button-paste works whether the evdaemon is
>> running/installed or not. Just like selecting text copies it to X's
>> clipboard.
>>
>> The middle-button-paste is quite handy, but can be easily disabled with
>> xinput:
>>
>> Disable middle-button completely:
>>  xinput set-button-map "evdaemon" 1 0
>>
>> Map middle-button to left-button:
>>  xinput set-button-map "evdaemon" 1 1
>>
>> Map middle-button back to middle-button:
>>  xinput set-button-map "evdaemon" 1 2
>>
>> and so on. See xinput's manpage.
>>
>> In the example above, I assumed that evdaemon's device name was the
>> default "evdaemon". This is however configurable via evdaemon-admin or
>> config-files. See the correct device name or id if evdaemon's name has
>> been changed: xinput list | grep id.
>>
>> On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 14:43 +0100, Jonathan Wagner wrote:
>> > Then perhaps Tuomas will chime in on disabling it. In fact, I was
>> > really dissapointed when I realized that you couldn't click both the
>> > right and left buttons, a common middle-click emulation) on the
>> > touchpad due to the rocker design.  I installed evdaemon very shortly
>> > after receiving the laptop, so I guess I didn't notice the added
>> > middle-click functionality or lack there of by default.  If it is
>> > evdaemon adding this, then three cheers to evdaemon.  Once you get
>> > used to it, you just can't give it up.  I use Windows in VirtualBox
>> > for some work applications and it pains me to no end when I highlight
>> > text and middle-click to paste and nothing happens.  Even worse is
>> > Xilinx's ISE software and it's lack of middle-click paste even though
>> > it's running natively in Linux.
>> >
>> >
>> > Anyway, hope you get things worked out.  Any out of the norm behavior
>> > from our input devices can be a real pain.
>> >
>> > Jonathan Wagner
>> >
>> >
>> > 2010/4/3 Dinis Gökaydin <dgokaydin@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >         Thanks Jonathan.
>> >
>> >         I guess after 20 years of computers I've never used the middle
>> >         button for anything... Regardless, the touchpad did not show
>> >         this behaviour before I installed evdaemon, so it was most
>> >         definitely introduced by it.
>> >
>> >         cheers
>> >
>> >         2010/4/3 Jonathan Wagner <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> >
>> >                 Middle click on a normal device pastes any highlighted
>> >                 or copied text, so I think this is normal behavior.
>> >                  If you're looking for scrolling then swipe with two
>> >                 fingers.
>> >
>> >
>> >                 I'm not Tuomas, but I don't think his software has
>> >                 this control (except maybe being able to disable
>> >                 middle click?).
>> >
>> >                 Jonathan Wagner
>> >
>> >
>> >                 2010/4/3 Dinis Gökaydin <dgokaydin@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> >
>> >                         Hi Tuomas,
>> >
>> >                         I'm a ul30vt user. I found your evdaemon
>> >                         amazingly helpful.
>> >
>> >                         Unfortunately, installing it cause a strange
>> >                         behaviour: when I double click with two
>> >                         fingers - something that supposedly mimics the
>> >                         behaviour of the mouse's middle button - it
>> >                         pastes any text I have copied.
>> >
>> >                         This is unfortunately an even more annoying
>> >                         problem than the accidental touches while
>> >                         typing, so I had to uninstall evdaemon.
>> >
>> >                         Can you fix it? Thanks.
>> >
>> >                         Regards,
>> >
>> >                         Dinis
>> >
>> >                         2010/3/27 Tuomas Räsänen <tuos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> >                                 On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 15:35 -0400,
>> >                                 Prof. John C Nash wrote:
>> >                                 > While I believe this is a very
>> >                                 useful resource, it has many bugs and
>> >                                 omissions. Can we
>> >                                 > convert it to a wiki format, either
>> >                                 here or elsewhere?
>> >                                 >
>> >
>> >
>> >                                 Actually, there is already a wiki page
>> >                                 dedicated to UL30A:
>> >
>> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/AsusUL30A
>> >
>> >
>> >                                 > - the touchpad issue is a real nasty
>> >                                 one. I've found and modified a tool to
>> >                                 turn it off,
>> >                                 > and could simplify the setup for
>> >                                 other users.
>> >                                 >
>> >
>> >
>> >                                 If you are interested, I wrote
>> >                                 evdaemon
>> >                                 ( http://codegrove.org/evdaemon/ ) to
>> >                                 kill the pain with the touchpad
>> >                                 ( it can also act as syndaemon for
>> >                                 event devices in general). Because
>> >                                 manually switching on/off the touchpad
>> >                                 was not an option for me, I wrote
>> >                                 evdaemon to switch on/off event
>> >                                 devices during keyboard activity. It's
>> >                                 Ubuntu-packaged in my PPA:
>> >
>> > https://launchpad.net/~tuos/+archive/codegrove
>> >
>> >                                 There is also a gui-tool for
>> >                                 configuring the daemon:
>> >                                 http://codegrove.org/evdaemon-admin/
>> >
>> >
>> >                                 It has helped at least me and couple
>> >                                 of my friends in this pain.
>> >
>> >                                 --
>> >                                 Tuomas
>>
>>
>> --
>> Tuomas
>>
>
>
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