[PD] Synaptics touchpad input not working

[Pedro Lopes]

Yep, it does. When you posted the second reply mentioning xinput I did
xinput --help and there it was "the --list command".

Thanks for the help,
Pedro

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:22 AM, dmotd <inaudible at simplesuperlativ.es>wrote:

> 'xinput --list' provides a list of all
> supported devices.
>
> Pedro Lopes wrote:
> > I've never used hid or linuxmouse. And when I saw your message I gave it
> a try
> > (since I'm also running Ubuntu and have a synaptics touchpad).
> >
> > I'd like to help but here it seems to be even a bigger mess... it crashes
> when
> > accessing the mouse evice with hid. (probably because of the user space
> issue
> > that dmotd mentioned).
> >
> > How did you get that device list? Is it a print from hid? (the only
> things I
> > remember is lspci and lsusb)
> >
> > Best regards to everyone, and big up to Hans-Christoph Steiner for hid
> and
> > linuxmouse,
> > Pedro
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:48 PM, dmotd <inaudible at simplesuperlativ.es>
> wrote:
> >
> >     also another tip, its possible to configure a
> >     device dynamically with 'xinput', you can
> >     toggle off with:
> >      xinput --set-prop "name of device" "Device Enabled" 0
> >     i use this with my wacom tablet to go between
> >     xorg device and HID, a full set of properties
> >     can be found with:
> >      xinput --list-props "name of device"
> >     i hope this is of help.
> >
> >     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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> > Pedro Lopes
> > contacto: jazz at radiozero.pt
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Pedro Lopes
contacto: jazz at radiozero.pt
website: http://web.ist.utl.pt/Pedro.Lopes
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