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virtuemood

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 33

synaptic : two finger scrolling is dead

I've been using xorg 1.8 for about three months.
Everything works fine,except my touch pad.
I have configured two finger scrolling in 10-synaptic.conf and xorg.conf.
But it doesn't make sense.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf
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Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
           Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on"
           Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "on"
           Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
           Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ"    "40"
           Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW"    "5"
          Option "TapButton1" "1"
          Option "TapButton2" "2"
          Option "TapButton3" "3"
EndSection
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My laptop is acer 1830T.
It should support multi touch.
Curiously, I can't find any synaptic device.

xinput -list
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⎡ Virtual core pointer                        id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                  id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse                          id=10    [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)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                                id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard                id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]

Last edited by virtuemood (2010-08-25 15:55:25)

anti-destin

Member

Registered: 2009-02-14

Posts: 234

Re: synaptic : two finger scrolling is dead

i have an acer travelmate 8172 (similar to the 1830t), and i managed to get two-finger scrolling to work.

1. try commenting out the touchpad section in 10-evdev.conf.

2. here's my 10-synaptics.conf:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
          Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on"
          Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "on"
          Option "VertEdgeScroll" "off"
          Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "off"
          Option "TapButton1" "1"
          Option "TapButton2" "2"
          Option "TapButton3" "3"
          Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "0"
EndSection

try those settings.

3. post your xorg log.