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miro279

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Registered: 2010-10-02

Posts: 155

[SOLVED] Synaptics Driver is not loaded

I try to set up a T400 and ran into problems with the touchpad. My 10-synaptics.conf sets synaptics as the driver:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "touchpad catchall"
        Driver    "synaptics"
        Option    "AlwaysCore"
        Option    "Device"              "/dev/input/mouse0"
        Option    "Protocol"            "auto-dev"
        Option    "SendCoreEvents"      "true"
        Option    "LeftEdge"            "1632"
        Option    "RightEdge"           "5312"
        Option    "TopEdge"             "1575"
        Option    "BottomEdge"          "4281"
        Option    "FingerLow"           "25"
        Option    "FingerHigh"          "30"
        Option    "MaxTapTime"          "180"
        Option    "MaxTapMove"          "220"
        Option    "MinSpeed"            "0.01"
        Option    "MaxSpeed"            "0.05"
        Option    "AccelFactor"         "0.0005"
        Option    "VertEdgeScroll"      "on"
        Option    "HorizEdgeScroll"     "on"
        Option    "VertScrollDelta"     "10"
        Option    "HorizScrollDelta"    "10"
        Option    "SHMConfig"           "on"
        #Option    "VertTwoFingerScroll"        "true"
        #Option    "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "true"
EndSection

Still I find in Xorg.0.log:

[  1471.148] (**) RADEON(0): Option "EXAVSync" "off"
[  1471.584] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (/dev/input/event7)
[  1471.584] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "evdev touchpad catchall"
[  1471.584] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
[  1471.584] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: always reports core events

synclient -l gives:

Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?

Also of course all synaptic options doesn't work..

Last edited by miro279 (2012-07-01 09:13:22)

Gcool

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Registered: 2011-08-16

Posts: 1,456

Re: [SOLVED] Synaptics Driver is not loaded

Do you have any other config files in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d directory that have any touchpad related settings in them? First thing that comes to mind is the Touchpad section in 10-evdev.conf (which you would need to comment or remove if it's still there).

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miro279

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Registered: 2010-10-02

Posts: 155

Re: [SOLVED] Synaptics Driver is not loaded

I followed your advice and got suspicious when my touchpad stoped working completly. So I got rid of the 10-synaptics.conf posted above (which was taken from the T400 arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Le … _UltraNav) and started a new from strach. As there seems to be no native multitouch support I found the debian page quite helpful: http://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad.
My new 10-synaptics.conf looks like that:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "2"
        Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "35"
        Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "8"
        Option "TapButton3" "3"
        Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
        Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1"
        Option "VertEdgeScroll" "1"
        Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "1"
        Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
        Option "HorizScrollDelta" "100"
        Option "CoastingSpeed" "8"
        Option "CornerCoasting" "1"
        Option "CircularScrolling" "1"
        Option "CircScrollTrigger" "7"
EndSection

and everything works as suposed. Thanks for the hint!