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nick122147

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Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 33

Synaptics Scolling, jack/realtime, sound problems

Hi, I'm a new user. Having used Ubuntu for a while I wanted to try something different. The installation was fairly simple on my laptop (sony vaio sz), but the configuration has been very difficult. I am left with a few problems that I can't figure out.

1. Scrolling doesn't work with synaptics driver. It works under Ubuntu. Tried using ubuntu xorg.conf, but that didn't work at all - causing mouse to move very slowly. How can I get this to work in arch?
This is relevant parts from my xorg.conf

Section "Module"

    Load        "dbe
    Load        "synaptics"                              
  Load "glx"
  Load "dri"

    SubSection  "extmod"
      Option    "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
    EndSubSection

# This loads the font modules
#    Load        "type1"
    Load        "freetype"
#    Load        "xtt"

EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Mouse1"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
        Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "100"
#        Option          "SHMConfig"            "on"
        Option          "MaxTapTime"            "0"
        Option          "TappingOff"            "1"
        Option      "LeftEdge" "1000"
#        Option      "RightEdge" "5300"
#        Option      "TopEdge" "1700"
#        Option      "BottomEdge" "4200"
#        Option      "FingerLow" "25"
#        Option      "FingerHigh" "30"
        Option      "VertScrollDelta" "0"
        Option      "MinSpeed" "0.4"
        Option      "MaxSpeed" "0.8"
        Option      "AccelFactor" "0.0010"
Option    "UpDownScrolling"    "1"

EndSection


Section "ServerLayout"

    Screen "Screen 1"

    InputDevice "Mouse1"  "AlwaysCore"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

# Section "DRI"
#    Mode 0666
# EndSection

Section "Extensions"
  Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"  "true"
EndSection

2. The jack server doens't start, it is getting killed by the watchdog. I followed the wiki and changed /etc/security/limits.conf to be like this but no change.

@audio          -       rtprio          99
@audio          -       nice            -20
@audio          -       memlock         250000
*               -       rtprio          0
*               -       nice            0

3. When I login to Gnome, the volume is always at 0 % and muted. I have changed the volume and run "alsactl store" both as root and as regular user, but no effect.

4. How can I get the mouse to have another pointer when highlighting  links (in firefox) ? In ubuntu there is a better looking pointer and the turning wheel while waiting (in all applications).

I havn't looked into suspend yet, got it almost to work in ubuntu with the buildt in suspend, only problem was harddrive didn't wake up causing crash. Which suspend version should I try first in Arch (I have sony vaio sz with i810, ipw3945, core duo 2ghz..

Thanks for any feedback! This is a fun distribution for learning linux, but it requires some time, work and patience. I'm hoping I have enough of all three.

Regards from

Steinar,
Norway

nick122147

Member

Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 33

Re: Synaptics Scolling, jack/realtime, sound problems

just adding that I am a member of the audio group (concerning the jack trouble)
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bijoux

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Registered: 2007-04-29

Posts: 18

Re: Synaptics Scolling, jack/realtime, sound problems

1. Replace InputDevice "Mouse1"  "AlwaysCore" with InputDevice "Mouse1"  "CorePointer" (AlwaysCore is for external mouse, as per synaptics)

2. Sorry I dont use jack

3. add "alsa" in daemon array  (/etc/rc.conf)

4. Sorry I dont know

Hope that helps

nick122147

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Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 33

Re: Synaptics Scolling, jack/realtime, sound problems

Scrolling now works! Had to change option device to /dev/input/event0
And sound level works with the alsa daemon.

Only to configure jack left. Anyone?

Thanks!

nick122147

Member

Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 33

Re: Synaptics Scolling, jack/realtime, sound problems

Jack works! I run gpasswd -a username audio to join the audio group. I was already in there, but I had edited the file manually, and for some reason that didn't work. it works now.

But there is another audio problem..:

In audacity I can record when I startup the program. But when I press stop, and then press record again, it says that it cannot access the soundcard (something like that). Very strange. Which config files could I look at to solve this?