My touchpad stopped working the other day on the EEE. I had’t the faintest clue as to why. The kernel had updated to 2.6.32-trunk and I knew that wasn’t the cause. When that update happened, I specifically tested the touchpad to make sure the synaptics driver was recognized.
Luckily, there is the DebianEEEWiki.
I remembered that the Xserver had indeed been updated, but at the time I didn’t note any of the details. So I checked on the version that’s running and sure enough its 1.7. So apparently the new and improved way is to use udev.
Well, I entered the the example file, with my own modifications of course, and still didn’t get any love. So I shutdown X and restarted it. Still nothing. I restarted udev, even though I know it’s unnecessary, and still nothing. Finally I shut things down and went to bed. Trouble shooting while dealing with a concussion is not a good combination.
Tonight I fired it up and the touchpad is working fine. Don’t know what service or daemon needed to be restarted, but apparently the reboot got it. Back to normal EEE use. At least I don’t have to muck with it any further.