Ubuntu 9.10 on Dell Latitude D610 - Sweet

[tomverweij]

Hi,

Couple of post earlier I offered to supply the googled link to switch of the Dualpoint Stick on my Dell.

Here it is: http://pythoneering.blogspot.com/200...1_archive.html

Creating this /etc/hal/fdi/preprobe/disable.fdi file with content worked form me:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="input.product" string='DualPoint Stick'>
<merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>


Ok, and now for something completely different:
DVD playback is rather noisy. Issueing 'sudo hdparm -y /dev/cdrom' spins down the drive, but soon enough it goes BZZZZ really loud again.
And then sometimes the system decides to spin down again. Is there a way to permanently control this ? E.g. when watching a DVD, force a low speed ?

I tried 'eject -X <speed> /dev/cdrom' as well, no effect.

I'm curious....

Regards
Tom

[tomverweij]

hi, me again.

After upgrading to Lucid the drifting mouse problem has reappeared.
# sigh #

So somehow the disable.fdi file trick is not working at the moment.
While I'm searching maybe someone can but in and help out....

Anybody ?


cheers
Tom

[dvfreelancer]

Can you describe the touchpad problem in more detail? Mine seemed to jump around a lot at first, then I realized that the right side of the touchpad is set up for scrolling (or zooming on Google maps).

If I stay on the left side of the pad, no problems. It's only the right quarter that makes it jump around.

[tomverweij]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.
It's completely irratic. Sometimes it's even gone for hours. And then it kicks again, and persisting after a restart. But this phenomena is not new, according to several links.
What IS painfull is that I had it fixed under 9.10 and now it's back again under 10.4.
I tried to figure out if the hal-devices output somehow is different causing the disable.fdi file not to disable the stick. But no differences show.

Where to look now ?

Regards
Tom

[tomverweij]

Hi,

me again on the drifting mouse issue.
It turns out that 'hal' is not active in 10.4 anymore.
I now need to disable the Dualpoint Stick using 'udev'
The manual pages give me a hard time.

Anybody able to guide me with a couple of steps ?
I will keep on looking myself so eventually will post the solution, but a shortcut might save me time

Tom

[tomverweij]

Good news !

Found a simpler way to get rid of the DualPoint Stick.
Look here: http://cederlys.wordpress.com/2010/0...ntu/#comment-4

It's:

$ xinput -set-prop "DualPoint Stick" "Device Enabled" 0

I stuck it into a startup app and my problems seem over.

Regards !
Tom