This problem is also valid for the ASUS UL30A. The touchpad is seen as an "ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse". See in dmesg and by the command "xinput list". I am using Ubuntu 9.10.
To disable the touchpad the following command can be used: xinput set-int-prop "ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse" "Device Enabled" 8 0 To enable use: xinput set-int-prop "ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse" "Device Enabled" 8 1 To make the <Fn>F9 working I did the following: 1. As the <Fn>F9 does not generate a keycode but an acpi event you cannot assign just a keycode to a script. So I first checked the generated event hotkey code using: sudo acpi_listen and pressed <Fn>F9. This gives 0000006b as event hotkey code. 2. In /etc/acpi/events there is an asus-touchpad event file. This is using the wrong code so I changed it. 3. The script /etc/acpi/assus-touchpad.sh is not correct for this touchpad so I changed it (see attached script) 4. Now send the acpid a SIGHUP signal (or reboot) and the <Fn>F9 button toggles your touchpad an or off. ** Attachment added: "asus-touchpad.sh (modified version)" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37299805/asus-touchpad.sh -- Touchpad not recognized on Asus U80 series. Touchpad Panel missing from mouse settings https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/418282 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
