Touchpad problem with ASUS laptop on linux

There it was, my new ASUS X550LD laptop with blah RAM blah blah HDD etc etc. Free Dos was pre-installed on it as the only OS. Using unetbootin I converted my pen drive bootable with Ubuntu 14.04. And Bam! My touchpad wasn't working.
When you find your hardware faulty on the very first day, you need to be bothered. Having about half an hour research on Google (obviously on some other device), I found that linux still doesn't support that model of Asus or vice-versa, I don't know.

I started relying on external mouse. But, as my faulty touchpad device was still on, I couldn't use the pointer properly. For example the clicks were not valid sometimes, or you point to some directory but suddenly the pointer jumped to some other place like electron performing transitions in atom.

With more research then I found this command xinput . It lists all of the connected devices and give them id numbers.

xinput command on terminal

As it shows PS/2 Generic Mouse my touchpad as id=13  I can run this command to turn this device off so that it stops interfering with my external mouse.

xinput set-prop 13 "Device Enabled" 0

So, I relied on this thing for about 6 months and then I found something which gave me huge relief!

Open /etc/default/grub with editing permissions.
Then find the line
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
and replace it with
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash psmouse.proto=bare"

Then perform sudo update-grub in the terminal. And then reboot ({sudo reboot} just in case of not removing hands from keypad).
That's it. I am now able to use my touchpad on linux.

Cheers!

Oh, Today is Diwali? Happy Diwali !

"First brush your teeth, then touch anything," Mommy used to say whenever I tried to sneak in to the kitchen for the Diwali sweets. Today, as I woke up at 8:30, nothing replaced my butter bread breakfast combination. And when I checked my facebook, it reminded me that today is Diwali! So, "Happy Diwali friends" is going to be my status too, as if just to tell 'em that I am celebrating too.
The best thing is that even today happiness is alive. But the meaning is not the same. Earlier it was mainly because of the fest, today it's because of the one day holiday it rendered.
I've made phone calls to my elder ones, touched their feet and received valuable suggestions to burn the crackers carefully. I know Dada ji had said exactly the same words somewhat 12 years ago. Who knows in advance that the childhood Diwali are the best ones we ever see in life?

Here at IIT Kharagpur, we have something called Illumination on Diwali. More than a thousand diyas are used by a single hostel to create amazing designs. Here are some of their pictures. That's the only exciting thing I'm feeling about this Diwali. 

"As there is so much light outside, I don't feel the need of putting any diya. As there is so much noise inside, I don't feel the need of burning any cracker."

For a handwash from a lamp, A Short Love letter

My beloved,

I still remember the day when you first came in this house. You were inside the groceries bag which was kept on the floor right near my table. Ah! 36 aayi, 36 gayi but I never saw anyone like you. Your lean appearance, your light pink complexion and above of all, your aroma all blew up my mind. It took me only 8.2 seconds to realize that I was in love with you!

The best incident of my life was yet to happen. I seemed to fall off when Ramu kaka took you out from the bag and placed you so close to me. I was breathing heavy. I felt as if a high voltage pulse entered me. I could notice all your features. Neck like a swan or even more beautiful, those elegant lips and yes, those tiny eyes, oh! I was feeling dizzy. For long you weren’t noticing me, maybe because I was not turned on. Thank god! Within few minutes the power was back and I lit myself as intense as I could. I felt more happy than I was before, more alive than I was ever. You had made an impact on me.

And finally, our eyes met! I never felt so boozed up before then. Couple of my heartbeats were skipped. I was loosing balance over the amount of current I was intaking. That made me fluctuate before you which would have hurt your eyes. But you kept looking at me or I should say I was getting nervous. Were you in love too? Did you like me too? But very soon you were carried away in the kitchen. You left me confused. And the sad part is, I never saw you even once since then.

Finally, tonight it’s going to be the last night in my house. 3 days ago, our madam took a picture of me. I didn’t know why. Today I got to know that, I was sold, on OLX! Somebody will take me away in the morning. I hope to see you for the last time when I’ll be going. And for now, I’m going to think about you all the night!

Love you forever.

Yours and only yours,

Mainstream FDS 500 GENIE 11W, 220V, E27 Bulb Base Lamp.

Don't mess with your book's feelings!

3 weeks have passed and I'm just stuck on the 18th page of my first book. While rewriting my script after two years, I've realized that even if you have too much to say and express, it's just your words which count to the world. That's why many masterpiece works remain underrated. And now I'm missing something.

How it first seemed to me?
I thought writing a book is like having some story running in your mind and your pen on the paper. Hell NO! Feelings? You need to have them. Don't mess with your book's feelings.

I want to explain considering a situation.
Plot 1) - Boy A dies at the age of 10
Plot 2) - Boy A suffers at the age of 10 but he's alive.

To take in general, Plot 1 should be more painful and heart-breaking. But the coin may turn. It might happen that the Plot 2 makes you cry like hell and you won't even get sad reading the first one. That's called the Story's feelings. It's the writer who decides how sensational the story is gonna be, never the story itself!

So all I need to say to myself now is to

Rationality vs Fantasy | How can a student of science write something about fantasy?

Seeking rationale behind the fantasies.....

Once I was seriously asked 'How can a person who believes in science can think beyond the laws of nature and thus write a fantasy novel about a superfluous magical world?' I can give a lecture on this topic. But I know how much I should talk here.

Rationality means being logical. We have certain rules and regulations which govern the nature. Some typical physicists even consider thinking beyond the laws as sin or something. Let me justify how nonsense this is! We all know the fact that earth revolves around the sun. Well, we will surely make jokes of the one who talks the other away, won't we? Let's go five centuries ago when Nicolaus Copernicus was sentenced to jail when he talked the truth. Can we make fun of our those ancestors?Few years after then a man named Christian Huygens talked about light being a wave. And after that he failed to retain his job as professor because that poor guy had talked against the almighty Newton. Now we all know the truth about the dual nature.

What I wanna convey is that we can not stick to the laws as they rule the nature. Nature is its own master! We just forgot that it was our mere attempt in understanding its complexity.
I have seen the nature from both the views, first one is of a person with knowledge and the other as a stupid spectator. I apologize for I can't write how magnificent is the second view.

P.S. - More on this topic can be found in the novel as a debate between a great physicist of earth and the God of Glacial World itself.
P.P.S. - Glacial World is a series of fantasy novels written by me. (Under Progress)