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by subversiveasset2.0 » Sat Jun 30, 2007 3:33 am
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"
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by subversiveasset2.0 » Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:29 pm
It seems I was a step ahead
...I've already installed gsynaptics. It doesn't do anything
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by Husse » Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:40 pm
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
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by subversiveasset2.0 » Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:42 pm
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
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by Husse » Sun Jul 01, 2007 6:43 am
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
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by subversiveasset2.0 » Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:24 pm
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...
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by subversiveasset2.0 » Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:49 am
gcc wrote: ...
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:
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
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by subversiveasset2.0 » Mon Jul 02, 2007 5:18 pm
yes, making it event4 didn't do anything; that's what I had tested.
let me check the site though...
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by subversiveasset2.0 » Mon Jul 02, 2007 5:46 pm
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.
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by subversiveasset2.0 » Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:08 pm
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.
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by subversiveasset2.0 » Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:19 pm
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.
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by subversiveasset2.0 » Sun Jul 29, 2007 6:32 pm
:/ 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.