Experiences with Asus UL30

[neehilo]

I have seen a report that multitouch works by default on an ul80vt in 9.10.

I've just tested that, multi-touch scrolling with the touchpad also works with the UL30A and Karmic Koala. I did not noticed that before since I quiet always use a mouse.

Neehilo.

[boom2k1]

I'm using a UL30A and recently quite disturbed by the screen brightness bug. On battery, idling causes the laptop to change screen brightness. Changing the setting from power management to prevent dimming while idling apparently doesn't work. Because I worked under low light environment, I set brightness to really low. When idling, it actually changes my brightness up!

Moreover, there also seems to be another problem moving my cursor after "dimming". The expected behaviour of the laptop should be to make the laptop to return to previous setting. However, it seems to reset it to something else (probably the default under power management)!

[TomtheWombat]

Same here:
Asus UL30A + Ubuntu 9.10 and still not working:

- Touchpad Elantech Smartpad recognised as Logitech Ps\2 mouse

This Touchpad issue is really anoying because you can use synaptics-touchpad capabilities. For example I can change the "sensitivity" of my touchpad and this is pretty anoying when typing and accidentally touching the pad.

Otherwise, everything else works pretty fine after all the workarounds discussed here.

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Here is something on fixing your touchpad in Karmic. I don't know if it will work for the Elan pad.

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-fix-...c-upgrade.html

[seigenblues]

Hey all,

just got the UL-30 and promptly put ubuntu on it. Only real complaint is that the touchpad fixes don't work, and the random taps are really driving me nuts. Any progress on this would be fantastic...

if anyone's curious, i can show you what i've tried so far.

cheers!

-seigen

[b3n87]

Hey all,

just got the UL-30 and promptly put ubuntu on it. Only real complaint is that the touchpad fixes don't work, and the random taps are really driving me nuts. Any progress on this would be fantastic...

if anyone's curious, i can show you what i've tried so far.

cheers!

-seigen

Hey, im thinking of getting this laptop, can you tell me what works, and what doesnt? and What the laptop is like generally?

[paf0]

Hey all,

just got the UL-30 and promptly put ubuntu on it. Only real complaint is that the touchpad fixes don't work, and the random taps are really driving me nuts. Any progress on this would be fantastic...

if anyone's curious, i can show you what i've tried so far.

cheers!

-seigen

Agreed on touchpad. I can't stand it. I tried this patch:
https://lists.launchpad.net/asus-ul30/msg00006.html

It did not work for me but perhaps it will work for someone else.

My touchpad is still being detected as a "ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse"

[fde]

Does the following trick work?

http://www.array.org/ubuntu/elantech.html

EDIT: Of course there is a problem with the /etc/modprobe.d/eeepc file. Is there an equivalent on the UL30?

EDIT2: Maybe another solution here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...82/comments/33

EDIT3: They seem to claim it is fixed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...5?comments=all

Changed in linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu):
status: Won't Fix → Fix Released

[TomtheWombat]

Does the following trick work?

http://www.array.org/ubuntu/elantech.html

I tried to pass the elantech option, but psmouse says that it is an invalid option.

[fde]

What about that?

http://arjan.opmeer.net/elantech/

And for the previous solution, did you install the gsynaptics-elantech package?

[TomtheWombat]

And for the previous solution, did you install the gsynaptics-elantech package?

Package was not available in the repository for amd64. I can't figure out where the package originates from.