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lomion

Member

From: Iran, Tehran

Registered: 2009-05-20

Posts: 3

Problem with Synaptics Touchpad and Hotplugging

Hi.

I've been using Arch Linux as a newbie (so I appreciate any help and guidance ) I have a problem with my synaptics touchpad. I managed to use hotplugging but the fdi is not loaded at all. To test it, I created a basic fdi:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.product" contains="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad">
        <append key="info.capabilities" type="strlist">input.touchpad</append>
    </match>
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">3</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">2</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

So far I know this means a touchpad with no scrolling at all. But right now I can do Two-finger scrolling!
This makes  me think something is wrong.
Any idea?

Using x86_64, xorg is uptodate

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ajb

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2008-02-06

Posts: 31

Re: Problem with Synaptics Touchpad and Hotplugging

Every option has its default value. I think that two finger scroll is enabled by default, so you must turn it off.
I suggest to turn it off in fdi file to test if the config file is working
<merge key="input.x11_options.TouchpadOff" type="string">1</merge>
Remember that it will be disabled
maybe better put there '2' instead of '1' which disable tapping, and scrolling(ref to man synaptics)