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artoale

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Registered: 2009-04-09

Posts: 14

Synaptics Touchpad two finger scroll hp pavilion dv5 1112el

Hi everyone
Some times ago I've tried to eneable 2 finger scroll on my laptop (hp pavilion dv5 1112el) with no success. I finally gived up thinking that my touchpad just do not support it.
Now that synaptics releas windows gesture software I saw a friend (same pc) with two finger scroll working fine (on win7) and I strarted again on tring eneable this feature....of couse with no success;
here is my xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf file:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "2"
        Option "TapButton3" "3"
        Option "VerticalTwoFingerScroll" "on"
        Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "10"
        Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "7"
        Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "on"
        Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "0"
EndSection

this does not works. How can I test if my touchpad supports this feature?
Tnx

Alessandro

Edit: u can find my Xorg log file here: http://just.artkiller-web.com/Xorg.0.log

Last edited by artoale (2010-12-15 18:02:06)

toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 713

Re: Synaptics Touchpad two finger scroll hp pavilion dv5 1112el

I had a similar issue on an hp tm2, try disabling the touchpad section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf:

#Section "InputClass"
#       Identifier "evdev touchpad catchall"
#        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
#        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
#        Driver "evdev"
#EndSection

then restart X

if that doesnt work you can always check after loading x by loading the settings by hand
synclient VerticalTwoFingerScroll=1

and see if it works manually, that way you at least know if your touchpad supports it (which most do)

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artoale

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Registered: 2009-04-09

Posts: 14

Re: Synaptics Touchpad two finger scroll hp pavilion dv5 1112el

Good job, with synclient I found out that two finger scroll works (quite well);
Anyway, I don't know how to make those settings sets up at boot....:(

toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 713

Re: Synaptics Touchpad two finger scroll hp pavilion dv5 1112el

on your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf (the one you posted above) try adding

Option "SHMConfig" "on"

before the other options.i think that's needed to enable the options at X start

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Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?"

pogeymanz

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Registered: 2008-03-11

Posts: 1,020

Re: Synaptics Touchpad two finger scroll hp pavilion dv5 1112el

You also have EmulateTwoFingerMinZ defined twice...

I doubt that will fix it.

wankel

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From: Iowa, USA

Registered: 2008-05-30

Posts: 218

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Re: Synaptics Touchpad two finger scroll hp pavilion dv5 1112el

I had the same issue, they just released a patched synaptics driver in ubuntu that enables true multitouch (if you have it available in windows like me), so you wont have to emulate it. I tried it in ubuntu and it works perfectly.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/308191

download is in comment #167, its a .deb format so im not sure if it will work on arch, but if you do try it let us know how it goes.

artoale

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Registered: 2009-04-09

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Re: Synaptics Touchpad two finger scroll hp pavilion dv5 1112el

I've tried to install it with deb2targz but it didn't work: as I try to convert it i recive those messages

deb2targz: converting 'synaptics-dkms_1.1.1_all.deb' ...
deb2targz: skipping section 'debian-binary'
deb2targz: skipping section 'control.tar.gz'
deb2targz: wrote 'synaptics-dkms_1.1.1_all.tar.gz'

and when I do "#pacman -U synaptics-dkms_1.1.1_all.tar.gz"

errore: manca il metadata del pacchetto in synaptics-dkms_1.1.1_all.tar.gz //missing metadata for packet synaptics-dkms....
errore: 'synaptics-dkms_1.1.1_all.tar.gz': il pacchetto non è valido oppure è corrotto //packet not valid or corrupted

(sorry, my locale is italian i've translated the error message for u)

Any idea where to find archbuild for this package (no way to get source am I true?)

wankel

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From: Iowa, USA

Registered: 2008-05-30

Posts: 218

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Re: Synaptics Touchpad two finger scroll hp pavilion dv5 1112el

Any idea where to find archbuild for this package (no way to get source am I true?)

I was able to use 7zip on the file to get the source code. Unfortunately I dont know my way around archbuilds, but if someone can make one that would be awesome. The only reason im not on arch right now is because of this issue with the touchpad.