[Debian-eeepc-devel] eeepc-acpi-scripts touchpad and blank screen toggles

[gajm]

Hi, there seems to be some problem with eeepc-acpi-scripts, on Squeeze
under Gnome environment, with the touchpad and the blank screen toggles.
They both get lost after a short time.

Not sure about this, but it seems to be related to
gnome-settings-daemon.

For the touchpad, the “synclient TouchpadOff=1” command is not working
anymore.
You can reset it just typing some letter on the keyboard.
A possible work around could be the use of xinput.
An example script that seems to work fine:

#!/bin/sh
XINPUTNUM=`xinput list | grep [Tt]ouch[Pp]ad | sed -n -e's/.*id=\([0-9]\+\).*/\1/p'`
# get current state of the touchpad
TPSTATUS=`xinput list-props $XINPUTNUM | awk '/Device Enabled/ { print $NF }'`

if [ $TPSTATUS = 0 ]; then
	xinput set-int-prop $XINPUTNUM "Device Enabled" 8 1

elif [ $TPSTATUS = 1 ]; then
	xinput set-int-prop $XINPUTNUM "Device Enabled" 8 0
fi


Same for the blank screen command, “xset dpms force off”, the monitor
turns on again after a short time.
Haven’t found a nice way to work it around, the only solution I found is
using vbetool.

#!/bin/sh
if [ ! -e /tmp/vbe.tmp ]; then
	touch /tmp/vbe.tmp
	vbetool dpms off
elif [ -e /tmp/vbe.tmp ]; then
	rm /tmp/vbe.tmp
	vbetool dpms on
fi

Would be nice to see this fixed for the release of Squeeze, even better
if with the new version of eeepc-acpi-scripts on which Luca Niccoli is
working.
Cheers