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indiff3rence

Member

From: Portugal

Registered: 2009-07-09

Posts: 6

Vertical Scroll of ETPS touchpad

Hello,

I'm currently dual booting Ubuntu and giving Archlinux a spin.
Everything is working so far except a few things. One of them is the touchpad vertical edge scrolling.
I'm relying on hotpluging and hal for device detection, and I've folow the steps on the wiki, but without success. Here's my 11-x11-synaptics.fdi file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.product" contains="ETPS/2 Elantech 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>
    <merge key="input.x11_options.VertEdgeScroll" type="string">1</merge>
    <merge key="input.x11_options.VertTwoFingerScroll" type="string">1</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

The VertTwoFingerScroll options seems to work fine, but not the VertEdgeScroll. What I'm doing wrong?

Another more major issue is I cant reboot, shutdown or suspend the laptop as a normal user, I got this kind of error:

org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.suspend no <-- (action, result)

My user is part of the group hal, what other configurations are needed to put this to work?

Thanks,

Pedro Saraiva

Mr Pink57

Member

From: a van down by the river

Registered: 2009-05-30

Posts: 91

Re: Vertical Scroll of ETPS touchpad

I cannot answer the first part but look here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics I assume you have though.

On the second part I have always had to sudo before my shutdown -h or -r (I don't suspend).

EDIT:  I had a vertical scroll issue on my Gateway MX3560 and disabling hotplugging is what fixed it (followed instructions in the wiki example).
EDIT2: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Asu … ics_driver check that out for your type of touchpad.

pink

Last edited by Mr Pink57 (2009-07-10 03:34:00)

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