[PD] Synaptics touchpad input not working
James Dunn
james at 4thharmonic.com
Sun Jun 20 15:23:18 CEST 2010
The problems I now have are that my version of xinput is 1.3.0 (Ubuntu
Hardy) and I don't have the --set-prop option. Since the GrabEventDevice
option in xorg.conf messes up my xserver, I tried removing the synaptics
driver completely and I can now get the data in via [hid] and
[linuxevent]. The problem is that I no longer have two-fingered
scrolling and can't disable the touchpad tap without a driver. I tried
to install the Alps driver but had an error as reported here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1277553#3
any help appreciated
James
Quoth Pedro Lopes, on 20/06/10 11:08:
> 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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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