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Hello Guys.
Yesterday I finally decided to fine tune all the little things on my laptop. I have Compal FL90 - not the newest one but it works just fine. When I was working on windows, I could use the rightmost vertical part of my touchpad to scroll. I got used to this nifty feature and I am trying to achieve the same result on Arch. I had read the info about synaptics on the wiki -> used information from there to setup my xorg.conf. Now it looks like this:
xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "SynapticsTouchpad" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "synaptics"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbLayout" "pl"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" # PS/2 Mouse
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "SynapticsTouchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "AlwaysCore" "true" # send events to CorePointer
#Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "SHMConfig" "false" # configurable at runtime? security risk
Option "LeftEdge" "1700" # x coord left
Option "RightEdge" "5300" # x coord right
Option "TopEdge" "1700" # y coord top
Option "BottomEdge" "4200" # y coord bottom
Option "FingerLow" "25" # pressure below this level triggers release
Option "FingerHigh" "30" # pressure above this level triggers touch
Option "MaxTapTime" "180" # max time in ms for detecting tap
Option "VertEdgeScroll" "true" # enable vertical scroll zone
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "true" # enable horizontal scroll zone
Option "CornerCoasting" "true" # enable continuous scroll with finger in corner
Option "CoastingSpeed" "0.30" # corner coasting speed
Option "VertScrollDelta" "100" # edge-to-edge scroll distance of the vertical scroll
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "100" # edge-to-edge scroll distance of the horizontal scroll
Option "MinSpeed" "0.30" # speed factor for low pointer movement
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.60" # maximum speed factor for fast pointer movement
Option "AccelFactor" "0.0020" # acceleration factor for normal pointer movements
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "true" # vertical scroll anywhere with two fingers
Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "true" # horizontal scroll anywhere with two fingers
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
HorizSync 31.0 - 48.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 70.0
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "LPL"
HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0
VertRefresh 60.0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Standard VGA"
Driver "vga"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 8601M GT"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "TripleBuffer" "True"
Option "OnDemandVBlankInterrupts" "True"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "metamodes" "1280x800_60 +0+0; 800x600 +0+0; 640x480 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
I can use two fingers to scroll now (so it partially works), but scrolling with right side of touchpad fails. Does anyone has any sugestions / solutions? I would be gratefull for any help.
Best regards,
Mike.
Last edited by praavDa (2009-03-31 19:45:44)
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All inputs are now Handled by HAL, no more inputs stuff in xorg.conf
save this to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
<match key="info.product" contains="Synaptics TouchPad">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
<!-- Arbitrary options can be passed to the driver using
the input.x11_options property since xorg-server-1.5. -->
<!-- EXAMPLE:
-->
<merge key="input.x11_options.AlwaysCore" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.Protocol" type="string">auto-dev</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.LeftEdge" type="string">1700</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.RightEdge" type="string">5300</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TopEdge" type="string">1700</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.BottomEdge" type="string">4200</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.FingerLow" type="string">25</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.FingerHigh" type="string">30</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.MaxTapTime" type="string">180</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.VertEdgeScroll" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.HorizEdgeScroll" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.CornerCoasting" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.CoastingSpeed" type="string">0.30</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.VertScrollDelta" type="string">100</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.HorizScrollDelta" type="string">100</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.MinSpeed" type="string">0.10</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.MaxSpeed" type="string">0.60</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.AccelFactor" type="string">0.0020</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.VertTwoFingerScroll" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.HorizTwoFingerScroll" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">2</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">3</merge>
</match>
<match key="info.product" contains="AlpsPS/2 ALPS">
</match>
<match key="info.product" contains="appletouch">
</match>
<match key="info.product" contains="bcm5974">
</match>
</match>
</device>
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@decaturguy: thank You for advice, I am trying to do so now but still - I have few problems.
First off all, I removed any input connected things from xorg.conf, enabled hotplugging and I am trying to configure HAL. My touchpad works (partially) and I can type polish letters with my keyboard, but:
1) On my laptop I have few multimedia keys. When I was using xorg to setup keyboard, I was running keytouch to setup the keys. With HAL keytouch doesn't work - I can't use any of additional keys. Anyone got any sugestions?
2) With xorg.conf touchpad worked partially - I could use two finger scroll but I couldn't scroll with one finger on right side of touchpad. Now, after creation of 11-x11-synaptics.fdi in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ I can use touchpad but neither 2 finger nor one finger on right side scroll doesn't work. Is there any way to fix this?
Last edited by praavDa (2009-04-08 06:28:35)
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So how do we implement those awesome old school hacks for touchpads in xorg? Like disable double tap click, that annoying scrollbar on the touch part, and increase the accuracy usage?
This stops tap clicking:
<merge key="input.x11_options.MaxTapTime" type="string">180</merge>
Here is your accuracy:
<merge key="input.x11_options.MinSpeed" type="string">0.10</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.MaxSpeed" type="string">0.60</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.AccelFactor" type="string">0.0020</merge>
Turn off the annoying scroll sections of the pad:
<merge key="input.x11_options.VertEdgeScroll" type="string">false</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.HorizEdgeScroll" type="string">false</merge>
For when you just have to get that third click in:
<merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">true</merge>
What are the other options for? Am I right about those so far? Ever since xorg config got obfuscated by hal every linux group everywhere has needed a faq on this important info!
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