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jbhv12

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Registered: 2017-05-19

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Cannot load synaptics driver

I am trying to configure trackpad on macbookpro 9,2. When I run

synclient -l

it show shows:

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

still I see drivers loaded in the log file. here is snip from

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

[  2764.655] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad" (type: KEYBOARD, id 12)
[  2764.656] (II) event1  - (II) Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad: (II) is tagged by udev as: Keyboard
[  2764.656] (II) event1  - (II) Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad: (II) device is a keyboard
[  2764.656] (II) config/udev: Adding input device bcm5974 (/dev/input/event10)
[  2764.656] (**) bcm5974: Applying InputClass "libinput touchpad catchall"
[  2764.656] (**) bcm5974: Applying InputClass "touchpad catchall"
[  2764.656] (**) bcm5974: Applying InputClass "Default clickpad buttons"
[  2764.656] (**) bcm5974: Applying InputClass "Disable clickpad buttons on Apple touchpads"
[  2764.656] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
[  2764.656] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
[  2764.656] (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[  2764.656] 	compiled for 1.19.0, module version = 1.9.0
[  2764.656] 	Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
[  2764.656] 	ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 24.1
[  2764.656] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'bcm5974'
[  2764.658] (II) systemd-logind: got fd for /dev/input/event10 13:74 fd 33 paused 0
[  2764.658] (**) bcm5974: always reports core events
[  2764.658] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event10"
[  2764.658] (II) synaptics: bcm5974: found clickpad property
[  2764.658] (--) synaptics: bcm5974: x-axis range -4750 - 5280 (res 94)
[  2764.658] (--) synaptics: bcm5974: y-axis range -150 - 6730 (res 92)
[  2764.658] (--) synaptics: bcm5974: pressure range 0 - 256
[  2764.658] (--) synaptics: bcm5974: finger width range 0 - 16
[  2764.658] (--) synaptics: bcm5974: buttons: left double triple
[  2764.658] (--) synaptics: bcm5974: Vendor 0x5ac Product 0x253
[  2764.658] (**) Option "SoftButtonAreas" "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0"
[  2764.658] (--) synaptics: bcm5974: touchpad found
[  2764.658] (**) bcm5974: always reports core events
[  2764.658] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb4/4-1/4-1.8/4-1.8.3/4-1.8.3:1.2/input/input10/event10"
[  2764.658] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "bcm5974" (type: TOUCHPAD, id 13)
[  2764.658] (**) synaptics: bcm5974: (accel) MinSpeed is now constant deceleration 2.5
[  2764.658] (**) synaptics: bcm5974: (accel) MaxSpeed is now 1.75
[  2764.658] (**) synaptics: bcm5974: (accel) AccelFactor is now 0.016
[  2764.658] (**) bcm5974: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
[  2764.658] (**) bcm5974: (accel) acceleration profile 1
[  2764.658] (**) bcm5974: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
[  2764.658] (**) bcm5974: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
[  2764.658] (--) synaptics: bcm5974: touchpad found
[  2764.658] (II) config/udev: Adding input device bcm5974 (/dev/input/mouse1)
[  2764.658] (**) bcm5974: Ignoring device from InputClass "touchpad ignore duplicates"

Also, lsmod has this entry:

bcm5974                16384  0

Here's how my

/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-synaptics.conf

looks like. Needless to say, none of these options are showing effect. Am I missing something here? should I have some other files in this directory?

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "touchpad"
    Driver "synaptics"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "3"
        Option "TapButton3" "2"
        Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
        Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on"
        Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "on"
        Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "on"
        Option "CircularScrolling" "on"
        Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
        Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "40"
        Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "8"
        Option "CoastingSpeed" "0"
        Option "FingerLow" "30"
        Option "FingerHigh" "50"
        Option "MaxTapTime" "125"
EndSection

please help me out here

Last edited by jbhv12 (2017-05-19 19:38:36)