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jinn

Member

From: Gothenburg

Registered: 2005-12-10

Posts: 506

Alps touchpad

Ive got an Alps touchpad.. but scroll doesnt work.. and I cant copy with it. ive installed synaptics package.. edited xorg.conf :

Section "InputDevice"

  Identifier      "Touchpad"
  Driver          "synaptics"
  Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
  Option          "Protocol"              "auto"
  Option "LeftEdge" "130"
  Option "RightEdge" "840"
  Option "TopEdge" "130"
  Option "BottomEdge" "640"
  Option "FingerLow" "7"
  Option "FingerHigh" "8"
  Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
  Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
  Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"
  Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
  Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
  Option "MinSpeed" "0.60"
  Option "MaxSpeed" "1.10"
  Option "AccelFactor" "0.030"
  Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"
  Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"
  Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
  Option "CircularScrolling" "1"
  Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1" Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
  Option "SHMConfig" "on"
  Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"

but xorg said that synaptics modules not found.. how come it doesnt work with synaptics drivers?

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tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Alps touchpad

I'm using xorg with synaptics here - no problems. Did you install the Arch package, or build it yourself? The error suggests the module is in the wrong place - it should be here:

/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/synaptics_drv.o

jinn

Member

From: Gothenburg

Registered: 2005-12-10

Posts: 506

Re: Alps touchpad

Yes I have the module in the same place.. I checked my xorg.conf and edited the module path to this directory:

/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/

But now it complained to no find bitmap module..and pcidata module..

Can I see your xorg.conf?

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jinn

Member

From: Gothenburg

Registered: 2005-12-10

Posts: 506

Re: Alps touchpad

Ok.. I did like this:

first I located the pcidata.o, it was in folder:

 
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/

then:

cd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/
ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/synaptics_drv.o synaptics_drv.o

And  now it works like a charm.. I would be nice if it could be in the right folder from the beginning..

Cheers & thanx
Jinn

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tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Alps touchpad

It is in the right folder - for the current xorg release. You broke it by upgrading to xorg 7.0.

You might like to contact the developer to ask him what his plans are in this area.

jinn

Member

From: Gothenburg

Registered: 2005-12-10

Posts: 506

Re: Alps touchpad

Ive gotta say that synaptics drivers sucks.. atleast for me. As soon as I make some resembling movement on the touchpad to draw the mouse to the left / right it imidiately thinks that I want to go back/forward one page when surfing..

Im going back to the mouse driver.. works alot better for me.. I wont be able to schroll throught the touchpad but no big deal.. I rather use page up/down.

cheers

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Snarkout

Member

Registered: 2005-11-13

Posts: 542

Re: Alps touchpad

Try changing:

Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"

to

Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"

Side scrolling is a much larger PITA than it's worth IMO.

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