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Hello all,
I was not sure if this is actually a Desktop Environment or Hardware problem, but since it's hardware related I will post it here.
The problem:
On my touchpad (on Acer Aspire 5610Z) I have scroll button for up/down/left/right and until a recent update the scroll buttons need to be clicked repeatably in order to scroll. Before the upgrade and the way I'm expecting to behave is that when I click and hold a button - it should repeat the scroll (I hope you are able to understand it). So basically my problem is that to scroll with the scroll-buttons I have to click it numerous times in order to scroll, instead of just holding the button pressed.
At the same time all other features like two-finger scrolling, gestures etc. are working, but I'm not used to scroll with two fingers and would like to have my scroll-buttons working.
Here is some information about the configuration:
10-synaptics.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad catchall"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "2"
Option "TapButton3" "3"
Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on" # enable vertical scroll zone
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "on" # enable horizontal scroll zone
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on" # vertical scroll anywhere with two fingers
Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "on" # horizontal scroll anywhere with two fingers
EndSection
Output of synclient -l
Parameter settings:
LeftEdge = 1752
RightEdge = 5192
TopEdge = 1620
BottomEdge = 4236
FingerLow = 25
FingerHigh = 30
FingerPress = 256
MaxTapTime = 180
MaxTapMove = 221
MaxDoubleTapTime = 180
SingleTapTimeout = 180
ClickTime = 100
FastTaps = 0
EmulateMidButtonTime = 75
EmulateTwoFingerMinZ = 282
EmulateTwoFingerMinW = 7
VertScrollDelta = 100
HorizScrollDelta = 100
VertEdgeScroll = 1
HorizEdgeScroll = 1
CornerCoasting = 1
VertTwoFingerScroll = 1
HorizTwoFingerScroll = 1
MinSpeed = 1.6
MaxSpeed = 1.75
AccelFactor = 0.087
TrackstickSpeed = 40
EdgeMotionMinZ = 30
EdgeMotionMaxZ = 160
EdgeMotionMinSpeed = 1
EdgeMotionMaxSpeed = 401
EdgeMotionUseAlways = 0
UpDownScrolling = 1
LeftRightScrolling = 1
UpDownScrollRepeat = 1
LeftRightScrollRepeat = 1
ScrollButtonRepeat = 100
TouchpadOff = 0
LockedDrags = 0
LockedDragTimeout = 5000
RTCornerButton = 0
RBCornerButton = 0
LTCornerButton = 0
LBCornerButton = 0
TapButton1 = 1
TapButton2 = 2
TapButton3 = 3
ClickFinger1 = 1
ClickFinger2 = 1
ClickFinger3 = 1
CircularScrolling = 0
CircScrollDelta = 0.100007
CircScrollTrigger = 0
CircularPad = 0
PalmDetect = 0
PalmMinWidth = 10
PalmMinZ = 200
CoastingSpeed = 20
CoastingFriction = 50
PressureMotionMinZ = 30
PressureMotionMaxZ = 160
PressureMotionMinFactor = 1
PressureMotionMaxFactor = 1
GrabEventDevice = 1
TapAndDragGesture = 1
AreaLeftEdge = 0
AreaRightEdge = 0
AreaTopEdge = 0
AreaBottomEdge = 0
HorizHysteresis = 25
VertHysteresis = 25
ClickPad = 0
Output of xinput list :
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ USB2.0 Camera id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
And the last upgrade since the scroll buttons stopped working:
[2012-03-14 08:15] upgraded chromium (17.0.963.78-1 -> 17.0.963.79-1)
[2012-03-14 08:15] > Updating desktop mime database...
[2012-03-14 08:15] upgraded eric (5.1.8-1 -> 5.2.0-1)
[2012-03-14 08:15] upgraded freetype2 (2.4.8-1 -> 2.4.9-1)
[2012-03-14 08:15] upgraded git (1.7.9.3-1 -> 1.7.9.4-1)
[2012-03-14 08:15] upgraded glproto (1.4.14-1 -> 1.4.15-1)
[2012-03-14 08:15] upgraded grep (2.11-1 -> 2.11-2)
[2012-03-14 08:15] upgraded gstreamer0.10 (0.10.35-1 -> 0.10.36-1)
[2012-03-14 08:15] upgraded gstreamer0.10-base (0.10.35-1 -> 0.10.36-1)
[2012-03-14 08:15] upgraded gstreamer0.10-base-plugins (0.10.35-1 -> 0.10.36-1)
[2012-03-14 08:15] upgraded gstreamer0.10-good (0.10.30-2 -> 0.10.31-1)
[2012-03-14 08:15] upgraded gstreamer0.10-good-plugins (0.10.30-2 -> 0.10.31-1)
[2012-03-14 08:15] upgraded xcb-proto (1.6-2 -> 1.7-2)
[2012-03-14 08:15] upgraded libxcb (1.7-2 -> 1.8.1-1)
[2012-03-14 08:15] upgraded libx11 (1.4.4-1 -> 1.4.99.1-1)
[2012-03-14 08:15] upgraded libxt (1.1.2-1 -> 1.1.2-2)
[2012-03-14 08:15] upgraded imagemagick (6.7.5.3-1 -> 6.7.6.0-1)
[2012-03-14 08:15] upgraded inputproto (2.0.2-1 -> 2.2-1)
[2012-03-14 08:15] upgraded libglapi (7.11.2-1 -> 8.0.1-2)
[2012-03-14 08:15] upgraded libgl (7.11.2-1 -> 8.0.1-2)
[2012-03-14 08:15] upgraded intel-dri (7.11.2-1 -> 8.0.1-2)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded kdebase-runtime (4.8.1-1 -> 4.8.1-2)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded khrplatform-devel (7.11.2-1 -> 8.0.1-2)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded libegl (7.11.2-1 -> 8.0.1-2)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded libgles (7.11.2-1 -> 8.0.1-2)
[2012-03-14 08:16] Users no longer need to be in the 'camera' group to use camera devices
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded libgphoto2 (2.4.11-1 -> 2.4.13-1)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded libnids (1.24-1 -> 1.24-2)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded libpciaccess (0.12.1-1 -> 0.13-1)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded libtiff (4.0.0-1 -> 4.0.1-1)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded libxft (2.3.0-1 -> 2.3.0-2)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded libxi (1.4.5-1 -> 1.6.0-1)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded man-pages (3.36-1 -> 3.37-1)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded mesa (7.11.2-1 -> 8.0.1-2)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded mpfr (3.1.0.p3-1 -> 3.1.0.p7-1)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded oxygen-gtk2 (1.2.1-1 -> 1.2.2-1)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded oxygen-gtk3 (1.0.1-1 -> 1.0.2-1)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded poppler (0.18.3-2 -> 0.18.4-1)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded poppler-glib (0.18.3-2 -> 0.18.4-1)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded poppler-qt (0.18.3-2 -> 0.18.4-1)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded python-configobj (4.7.2-3 -> 4.7.2-4)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded python-pygments (1.4-5 -> 1.5-1)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded python2-pygments (1.4-5 -> 1.5-1)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded ruby (1.9.3_p125-1 -> 1.9.3_p125-2)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded skype (2.2.0.35-2 -> 2.2.0.35-3)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded xf86-input-evdev (2.6.0-4 -> 2.7.0-1)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded xf86-input-synaptics (1.5.0-1 -> 1.5.99-0.2)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded xf86-input-vmmouse (12.7.0-3 -> 12.8.0-1)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded xf86-video-intel (2.17.0-2 -> 2.18.0-1)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded xf86-video-vmware (11.1.0-1 -> 12.0.0-1)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded xorg-server-common (1.11.4-1 -> 1.12.0-1)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded xorg-server (1.11.4-1 -> 1.12.0-1)
[2012-03-14 08:16] upgraded xorg-xinput (1.5.3-2 -> 1.5.99.1-1)
[2012-03-14 10:51] Running 'pacman -S gimp-devel'
[2012-03-14 10:52] Running 'pacman -S extra/gimp-devel'
[2012-03-14 10:52] Running 'pacman -Syy'
[2012-03-14 10:52] synchronizing package lists
[2012-03-14 10:54] Running 'pacman -S extra/gimp-devel'
[2012-03-14 10:55] Updating font cache... done.
[2012-03-14 10:55] installed gsfonts (1.0.7pre44-3)
[2012-03-14 10:55] installed libwmf (0.2.8.4-9)
[2012-03-14 10:55] installed babl (0.1.6-1)
[2012-03-14 10:55] installed gegl (0.1.8-2)
[2012-03-14 10:55] installed gimp-devel (2.7.5-1)
[2012-03-14 11:01] Running 'pacman -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-vladi/PKGDEST.26J/gimp-photoshop-brush-1.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-03-14 11:02] installed gimp-photoshop-brush (1.0-1)
[2012-03-14 11:02] Running 'pacman -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-vladi/PKGDEST.Jc0/gimp-photoshop-brush-1.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-03-14 11:02] upgraded gimp-photoshop-brush (1.0-1 -> 1.0-1)
[2012-03-14 11:03] Running 'pacman -S --asdeps --needed extra/perl-xml-parser extra/intltool'
[2012-03-14 11:03] installed perl-xml-parser (2.41-2)
[2012-03-14 11:03] installed intltool (0.50.1-1)
[2012-03-14 11:03] Running 'pacman -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-vladi/PKGDEST.GVM/gimp-plugin-saveforweb-0.29.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-03-14 11:03] installed gimp-plugin-saveforweb (0.29.3-1)
[2012-03-14 11:04] Running 'pacman -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-vladi/PKGDEST.OX1/gimpfx-foundry-2.6_1-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-03-14 11:04] installed gimpfx-foundry (2.6_1-2)
[2012-03-14 20:27] Running 'pacman -Syy'
[2012-03-14 20:27] synchronizing package lists
[2012-03-14 20:30] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2012-03-14 20:30] synchronizing package lists
I thank you in advance for your suggestions
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I have the exact same problem on the same hardware (Aspire 5610). Toying around with /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf doesn't seem to be solving anything - which makes sense, since I didn't change anything there prior to the touchpad-issue.
I tried downgrading the xf86-input-synaptics package from 1.7.0-1 to 1.6.3-2 and -1, but only ended up without ANY touchpad capabilities...
Any suggestions anyone?
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Just noticed that the initial post was issued over a year ago... so that makes it actually imossible for the problem to be have been caused by the same update. Strange!
Did you, by any chance, find a solution?
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I'm afraid the problem is in driver.
I compared sources of input-synaptics 1.6.3 and 1.7.0 and it seems that author has cut off the functionality of "repeating" scrollbuttons
Here's the announce of this new version:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/x … 55593.html
And we can read there: "Purge scrollbuttons (repeat)".
Strange decision I think...
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Strange decision indeed! So it's not actually a bug, it's a "feature"
Then vkolev's post must have been related to some other problem...
Thanks for the info, sihox.
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