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[Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell@xxxxxxxxx>]

At this moment I'm using eeebuntu (switched from ubuntu-eee) but I
believe this will work on easypeasy. I followed the advice at
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=458445 on my Eee PC 900,
namely I backed up my old /etc/X11/xorg.conf and replaced it with the
attached version.

Benefits:

 -- the touchpad settings are more sane
 -- the Mouse application (System -> Preferences -> Mouse) gains a Touchpad tab
 -- You can now run syndaemon (turns off touchpad when typing) without a SHMconfig error
 -- You can install the package called gsynaptics-elantech (adds a Touchpad application) with MANY more touchpad-specific options than the tab in Mouse can set.

Downside:

  -- so far, the main thing I have noticed is about a 20-second delay
before the default netbook-remix panels finish coming up. The desktop
appears (keyring requests its password, if that applies to you) and the
launchers come up quite a few seconds later. It's possible the xorg.conf
file could use some model-specific tweaking.

My understanding from discussions at eeeuser.com is that the elantech
driver is included in the custom kernel but is not activated by default
because it's not considered stable. Once it's stable and activated maybe
it will come up without futzing with xorg.conf ???

** Attachment added: "xorg.conf"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21218054/xorg.conf

-- 
wrong 900 touchpad driver
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/275421
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Status in Easy Peasy: New

Bug description:
One of the only reasons I switched from the old to the new Ubuntu EEE was to see if the touchpad drivers had been properly updated. They haven't. Though the touchpad works, it's almost impossible to turn the touchpad off while typing (which is extremely important to anyone like me who has big hands and uses the EEE for serious writing). 

Please see: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=874604