#!/usr/bin/alex

I’ve corrected the debian package xserver-xorg-input-synaptics_0.99.2-0.1_i386.deb that you can find here: http://alioth.debian.org/~dsalt-guest/eee/

There was a dependency problem that prevented the installation in Ubuntu 8.10 (codename: intrepid), correcting the dependecy reference seems to solve this problem.

You can now use your elantech touchpad with kernel 2.6.28!

You can find the updated xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in my folder: http://www.alexworld.it/download/

or directly there: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics_0.99.2-0.1_i386.deb

bye,

alex@dothan:~$ uname -a
Linux dothan 2.6.28-dothan #2 SMP Sun Jan 4 19:04:50 CET 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
alex@dothan:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 13
model name    : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor          900MHz
stepping    : 8
cpu MHz        : 900.000
cache size    : 512 KB
fdiv_bug    : no
hlt_bug        : no
f00f_bug    : no
coma_bug    : no
fpu        : yes
fpu_exception    : yes
cpuid level    : 2
wp        : yes
flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx up bts
bogomips    : 1800.02
clflush size    : 64
power management:

It’s all ok!!

all works ok, kernel 2.6.28 gives you full support to your eeepc 900 hardware without any type of patch!

You have only to update xserver-xorg-synaptics to the latest version: 0.99.* otherwise you won’t have the complete touchpad support (by elantech driver included in the kernel).

you can find xserver-xorg-synaptics debian packages here: http://alioth.debian.org/~dsalt-guest/eee/

elantech driver official website: http://arjan.opmeer.net/elantech/

Goodbye,

Yes you can,

It’s not only a great political slogan..

Does Heavy Disk I/O harm your system responsiveness? (Do Firefox and other apps become unresponsive when using I/O on SSD?)

There is a “little” workaround: change your I/O Scheduler!

You can change I/O Scheduler of your kernel on eeepc 900 (and not only, also on: 901, dell mininote and the other netbooks with Solid State Disk) and use someone that will takes you some advantages,

with the option: “elevator” you can try many different schedulers from you kernel:

Completely Fair Queuing (Linux) (Default one)

Anticipatory scheduling

Noop scheduler

Deadline scheduler

Also as you can read by the description of each scheduler, noop seems to be the best I/O Scheduler for Systems placed on SSD,

but I’ve experienced more improvement using Deadline Scheduler.

this is an example showing my current Grub configuration:

title        Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-8-eeepc
uuid        32399df8-340e-45bb-8344-430976ffa718
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-8-eeepc root=UUID=32399df8-340e-45bb-8344-430976ffa718 ro elevator=deadline
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-8-eeepc
quiet

Please note: what you are experiencing on your system seems to be a bug related to the kernel,

Stay Tuned on: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/131094 to have more updates!

gbyte :-)