Samsung Series 7 Chronos Elantech touchpad

[helgatheviking]

Just bought a samsung series 7 chronos laptop today and i'm testing out the Mint 13 live usb to see if it will work before installing. ideally i am going to quit dual booting, install Mint and then run windows in a virtualbox if i absolutely need it. so far everything looks good except the touchpad (i already know that compiz grid doesn't work on cinnamon). anyway, it is an elantech touchpad and it is one giant touchpad with no separate buttons.

i actually enabled two-finger scrolling and that seems to work ok. i enabled horizontal scroll and that seems ok too.

2 major problems so far:

1. right click. the bottom right corner is supposed to be the right click. nothing happens.

2. click and drag does not work.

oh and a 3rd one that is really just icing, in windows you can kind of flick up and down to accelerate scrolling. scrolling only seems to be one speed.

are these problems fixable? i'm going to make a disk image of the windows install, but i really don't want to go through the trouble of wiping it out if mint won't be usable. lack of a right click is unusable imo... it is the first thing i tell my friends that i hate so much about macs!

thanks for any insight you can provide.

[Rev_Willie]

Same problem. It does the same thing in Fedora 17, so I think that it has something to do with the updated touch-pad drivers.

If any one has a fix it would be great.

By the way the touch-pad works fine in Mint 12.

[helgatheviking]

it works in mint 12? i will have to test out a downgraded liveCD then.

[helgatheviking]

it does work in mint 12, but i guess i am stubborn and want it to work in 13 too. i have discovered that if you press really hard in the middle of the touchpad, you can drag (w/ a lot of pressure) to select. so that is better than i thought, but still not workable. i tried synclient RBCornerButton=3 as suggested in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics but that didn't bring back the right click in the RIght corner like i had hoped.

[helgatheviking]

just want to point out that on mint 12 the touchpad is detected as a mouse, and there are no touchpad settings... ie: i can't do simple scroll or enabled two-finger scrolling.

[helgatheviking]

just want to point out that on mint 12 the touchpad is detected as a mouse, and there are no touchpad settings... ie: i can't do simple scroll or enabled two-finger scrolling.

[helgatheviking]

yeah, i thought i had the hybrid graphics figured out actually, but then i killed X. so i reinstalled for the 5th time in 3 days. tried using clonezilla to clone a clean install instead, but idk where the images are actually going. need to figure out how to make a clone so that i can then do this:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/124292/w ... eo-drivers

also have seen some info in the ubuntu community about our 'touchpad' really being considered a 'clickpad'. so it seems that we need to tell synaptics where the right button is:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/151194/c ... ight-click

but i tried that and haven't been successful yet. idk if that was what broke xorg or the stuff i was doing trying to get my HDMI external tv to connect. or the ATI drivers. need to stick to 1 problem at a time, but unfortunately there are soooo many.

[ens]

Solved all elantech issues using this custom /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/52-elantech-touchpad.conf (on Asus K55 with lmde 64 xfce 4.10)
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[helgatheviking]

I meant to come back and say that I also found a solution in this person's gist :
https://gist.github.com/2382480

I think the key is in the soft button areas? I will have to try yours too... b/c it isn't perfect yet.