Comments on: Setting up multi-touch scrolling for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Linux on Asus Eee 1005HA netbook

By: Peter Pall

Peter Pall — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:56:32 +0000

AFAIK the fact that the old method does not work any more is not a bug, but actually a feature that makes system architecture much easier and that drastically reduces boot time:

In earlier days auto-detection of hardware was split between two programs: HAL (the program that used the .fd files) and UDEV. Both had more or less the same task – and it was never easy for a programmer to determine which of them to use for which task.

Newer Ubuntu versions have moved all hardware support to UDEV and where therefore able to completely drop HAL.

By: Leo

Leo — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:42:22 +0000

ubuntu freshly updated… NOT WORKING AGAIN, this time, it’s cyclic, the scrolling never stop to up and down -_- (new method, ancient method still doesn’t work)

By: Leo

Leo — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:53:52 +0000

Multi-Touch’s working again on 10.04, solution found here :
http://mixeduperic.com/Linux/Hacks/ubuntu-1004-how-to-setup-two-finger-scroll-on-laptop-touch-pad.html

By: Leo

Leo — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:04:18 +0000

The script doesn’t work anymore on my asus 1201n after my latest update with Ubuntu 10.04, it worked great before this update

Don’t know what went wrong and why I don’t have the multitouch anymore…

Heeeelp !!!

By: tzepu

tzepu — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:03:03 +0000

I tried to do so in lucid on an 1005 pe machine.
I am stuck at saving the file. It tells me that there is no file.
Should I create the directories for it?

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asus eeepc 1005PE - openSUSE Forums — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:23:05 +0000

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By: igor-ipod

igor-ipod — Sun, 23 May 2010 18:12:32 +0000

Yeah! It works with asus eee pc 1201n (ubuntu 10.04)

By: “Two Finger Scrolling” for Ubuntu 9.10 on Dell Latitude E6400 « Soma's Blog

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:31:23 +0000

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By: chris

chris — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:35:49 +0000

it doesnt seem to work for me in ubuntu 9.10 nbr on asus 1005ha, i have tried lots of different values but two finger scrolling just selects the text in both firefox and chrome so i have no idea whats going on, any ideas?

By: andy

andy — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:12:38 +0000

Hey- using a EEE 1201N which claims to have multitouch, but the driver is not supporting it.

I’m using Ubuntu 9.10 and your script works great! Thanks, I can now finally use 2 finger scrolling.