Vertical scrolling for a Synaptics Touchpad?

[subversiveasset2.0]

I installed gsynaptics, and that lets me turn on the feature, but it doesn't do anything...there should be a way to just add code to xorg.conf, right?

This is what I have so far for the synaptics touchpad:

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Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Device"        "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"      "auto-dev"
        Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "0"
        Option          "SHMConfig"     "true"
EndSection


[Husse]

The search is useful
In your case search for touchpad and you will find....
http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopi ... pad&t=2723
The first four posts has the solution I think - install gsynaptics....

[subversiveasset2.0]

It seems I was a step ahead ...I've already installed gsynaptics. It doesn't do anything

[Husse]

OK
Study the link and you'll see that in there it is

Option "SHMConfig" "on"

not Option "SHMConfig" "true" as you have. I have honestly no idea if that solves it but there's a difference

[subversiveasset2.0]

Ok, i'll change it and see what happens; Gsynaptics itself is what said to put it on true

Ok, so I changed it to "on", but that doesn't help: changing options in gsynaptics still does not change actual touchpad performance

[Husse]

OK the first attempt failed
Give us some more information, such as the model of your laptop. As the "giants" reuse names the year it was made would also be helpful

[subversiveasset2.0]

I have an HP Compaq Presario V4000T from hmm...I dunno...2005? Yeah, that's the year I don't have any specific info on the touchpad though...

[gcc]

mine (HP dv9000) is as follows:

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Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Synaptics Touchpad"
    Driver         "synaptics"
    Option         "SendCoreEvents" "true"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto-dev"
    Option         "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
EndSection


works for me, but you may want to try qsynaptics, which seems to work for some people.

Miscellaneous advice:

Check to make sure that in your serverLayout section that you have a line that looks like:

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 InputDevice     "Synaptics Touchpad"

Another question may be the maker of the touchpad. I believe that on my old laptop I had to set the value of the "Device" "/dev/psaux" line to:

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     Option         "Device" "/dev/input/<event>"

where <event> is the code corresponding to the touchpad from the output of:

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cat /proc/bus/input/devices

Ill add more later as it occurs to me. Hope it helps.

[subversiveasset2.0]

...

Another question may be the maker of the touchpad. I believe that on my old laptop I had to set the value of the "Device" "/dev/psaux" line to:

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     Option         "Device" "/dev/input/<event>"

where <event> is the code corresponding to the touchpad from the output of:

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cat /proc/bus/input/devices

Ill add more later as it occurs to me. Hope it helps.

This was the only major thing that I could find was different...so I tried changing it. It didn't help, but helped me find more information about the model of the touchpad.

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I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=7321
N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio4/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input4
H: Handlers=mouse3 event4 ts3
B: EV=f
B: KEY=420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3
B: ABS=1000003


is the specific information

[gcc]

try /dev/input/event4, with protocol "event". apparently some alps touchpads have issues. also, try http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/11/15/fixing-my-alps-touchpad-with-the-synaptics-driver/, as it describes a scenario close to what you are having. Make sure and read the posts, there is an error or two with the config as presented. It does helpfully list a llot of the more commonly used options though- circular scrolling, pointer acceleration, etc.

[subversiveasset2.0]

yes, making it event4 didn't do anything; that's what I had tested.

let me check the site though...

[subversiveasset2.0]

And....the site doesn't help.

Adding a section for Alps (with all the options) as well as redoing ServerLayout to use that new section gives me nothing new. I'm not breaking anything...but I'm not fixing anything either.

:/ When I used to use Mandriva, it would automatically set up vertical scrolling...but I didn't save the xorg.conf from mandriva and never figured out how to get vertical scrolling working in gentoo either.

[subversiveasset2.0]

The problem is solved. I don't know what was the solution that finally worked, but when I restarted twice, the scrolling started working.

:/ these things are so fickle.

[subversiveasset2.0]

OK, after having messed up my xorg.conf (it seems it resets every time you get change drivers via envy or restricted package manager,) and having to get support again, I realized that what actually fixed it was actually putting these lines in:

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        Option "LeftEdge" "120"
        Option "RightEdge" "830"
        Option "TopEdge" "120"
        Option "BottomEdge" "650"
        Option "FingerLow" "14"
        Option "FingerHigh" "15"
        Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
        Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
        Option "ClickTime" "0"
        Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"
        Option "VertScrollDelta" "10"
        Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
        Option "MinSpeed" "0.45"
        Option "MaxSpeed" "0.75"
        Option "AccelFactor" "0.020"
        Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"
        Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"
        Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
        Option "CircularScrolling" "0"
        Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"
        Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
        Option "SHMConfig" "true"

the gsynaptics and qsynaptics both don't do anything, so just putting Option "SHMConfig" "true" OR "on" does not do anything.

[subversiveasset2.0]

:/ doesn't work with another restart.

I really don't know what the problem is...now editing xorg.conf or using gsynaptics, qsynaptics, or ksynaptics does nothing.

[xaser]

hi!

I have an similar issue, so may be help to read this topic...

http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopi ... 3419#33419

by the way, may You try to boot RECOVERY mode and then normal in order to see if it resets your issue too...

best regards!