Thanks for the info. I have seen the xorg.conf from an agora with the shipped version of gOS, and I do not believe it has anything special that makes the touchpad work.

When I first installed Ubuntu onto my agora, the kernel did not even register the touchpad device, so there is not much x can do at this stage – the device didn’t exist! It wasn’t until I added the i8024.nomux to the kernel boot options that the kernel registered the device, as seen in dmesg:

[ 13.966525] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.5, id: 0x25c0b1, caps: 0xa04711/0xa00000

Before the i8024.nomux, this line never appeared.

I can only assume that the i8024.nomux option has been compiled into the kernel/module somewhere for the kogan agora version of gOS…

Cheers
Kayne

Anyway, I checked the xorg.conf in UNR, and found it was all defaults. I looked at the xorg.conf in gOS, and it has quite a bit of configuration in it. It seems to get the touchpad working without your ‘ i8042.nomux’ change to GRUB command. Here is what the file contained, help this helps:

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type “man xorg.conf” at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Generic Keyboard”
Driver “kbd”
Option “XkbRules” “xorg”
Option “XkbModel” “pc105″
Option “XkbLayout” “us”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Configured Mouse”
Driver “mouse”
Option “CorePointer”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Synaptics Touchpad”
Driver “synaptics”
Option “SendCoreEvents” “true”
Option “Device” “/dev/psaux”
Option “Protocol” “auto-dev”
Option “HorizEdgeScroll” “0″
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller”
Driver “intel”
BusID “PCI:0:2:0″
Option “MonitorLayout” “CRT,LFP”
Option “DevicePresence” “True”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “MyMonitor”
Option “DPMS”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Device “Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller”
Monitor “MyMonitor”
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Depth 1
Modes “1680×1050″ “1280×1024″ “1280×960″ “1152×864″ “1024×768″ “832×624″ “800×600″ “720×400″ “640×480″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 4
Modes “1680×1050″ “1280×1024″ “1280×960″ “1152×864″ “1024×768″ “832×624″ “800×600″ “720×400″ “640×480″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 8
Modes “1680×1050″ “1280×1024″ “1280×960″ “1152×864″ “1024×768″ “832×624″ “800×600″ “720×400″ “640×480″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 15
Modes “1680×1050″ “1280×1024″ “1280×960″ “1152×864″ “1024×768″ “832×624″ “800×600″ “720×400″ “640×480″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 16
Modes “1680×1050″ “1280×1024″ “1280×960″ “1152×864″ “1024×768″ “832×624″ “800×600″ “720×400″ “640×480″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
Modes “1680×1050″ “1280×1024″ “1280×960″ “1152×864″ “1024×768″ “832×624″ “800×600″ “720×400″ “640×480″
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Default Layout”
Screen “Default Screen”
InputDevice “Synaptics Touchpad”
EndSection