[PD] Synaptics touchpad input not working

[James Dunn]

Hi dmotd,

that's perfect! thanks a lot

James

Quoth dmotd, on 19/06/10 16:02:
> hi james,
>
> the synaptics driver generally steals the focus of the device
> so that userspace programs can't directly access it, see if
> the Xorg option 'Option "GrabEventDevice" "false"' helps,
> see 'man synaptics' for more info.
>
> cheers,
> dmotd
>
> James Dunn wrote:
>    
>> I've tried using [hid] and [linuxmouse] and both objects can open the device
>> but no data is output from either object. [MouseState] and [cursor] both work
>> but I was hoping to get relative values. Is this a driver issue? I'm using
>> Ubuntu 8.04 and Pd version 0.42.5-extended-rc3. Here's the console output:
>>
>> [hid] 0.7, written by Hans-Christoph Steiner<hans at eds.org>
>>      compiled on Jun 13 2010 at 11:45:43
>>
>> Device 0: 'Macintosh mouse button emulation' on '/dev/input/event0'
>> Device 1: 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard' on '/dev/input/event1'
>> Device 2: 'PC Speaker' on '/dev/input/event2'
>> Device 3: 'Power Button (FF)' on '/dev/input/event3'
>> Device 4: 'Sleep Button (CM)' on '/dev/input/event4'
>> Device 5: 'Lid Switch' on '/dev/input/event5'
>> Device 6: 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' on '/dev/input/event6'
>> Device 7: 'Video Bus' on '/dev/input/event7'
>> Device 8: 'PS/2 Generic Mouse' on '/dev/input/event8'
>>
>>
>> Supported events:
>>
>> Detected:
>> [hid] opened device 6 (/dev/input/event6): SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
>> print: open 1
>> print: device 6
>>
>>
>> Also my xorg.conf has this info:
>>
>> Section "InputDevice"
>>      Identifier  "Synaptics Touchpad"
>>      Driver      "synaptics"
>>      Option        "SendCoreEvents" "true"
>>      Option        "Device" "/dev/psaux"
>>      Option        "Protocol" "auto-dev"
>>      Option        "HorizEdgeScroll" "FALSE"
>>      Option        "VertEdgeScroll" "FALSE"
>>      Option        "SHMconfig" "on"
>>      Option        "VertTwoFingerScroll" "TRUE"
>>      Option        "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "TRUE"
>> EndSection
>>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> James
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