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Maska

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Registered: 2010-12-27

Posts: 5

Touchpad - Synaptics

I am on an Acer 5670 laptop, for some reason after I left the keyboard for a few moments, my touchpad stopped working.  I have taken the opportunity to search other posts, again. 

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf reads:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "2"
        Option "TapButton3" "3"
EndSection

This is my Xorg.0.log

[    22.174] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad ($
[    22.174] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "evdev touchp$
[    22.174] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "touchpad cat$
[    22.174] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
[    22.174] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
[    22.195] (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    22.195]    compiled for 1.9.2, module version = 1.3.0
[    22.195]    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
[    22.195]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 11.0
[    22.195] (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 1.3.0
[    22.195] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event8"
[    22.313] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: x-axis range 1472 - 5472
[    22.313] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: y-axis range 1408 - 4448
[    22.313] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: pressure range 0 - 255
[    22.313] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: finger width range 0 - 15
[    22.313] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: buttons: left right double triple$
[    22.313] (**) Option "TapButton1" "1"
[    22.313] (**) Option "TapButton2" "2"
[    22.313] (**) Option "TapButton3" "3"
[    22.420] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found
[    22.420] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: always reports core events
[    22.473] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics Touch$
[    22.473] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) MinSpeed is now constant $
[    22.473] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: MaxSpeed is now 1.75
[    22.473] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: AccelFactor is now 0.040
[    22.473] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) keeping acceleration sche$
[    22.473] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration profile 1
[    22.473] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
[    22.473] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
[    22.553] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found
[    22.553] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad ($
[    22.553] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "touchpad cat$
[    22.553] (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 1.3.0
[    23.883] (EE) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad no synaptics event device found
[    23.883] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1"
[    23.910] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: invalid x-axis range.  defaulting$
[    23.910] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: invalid y-axis range.  defaulting$
[    23.910] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: invalid pressure range.  defaulti$
[    23.910] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: invalid finger width range.  defa$
[    23.910] (**) Option "TapButton1" "1"
[    23.910] (**) Option "TapButton2" "2"
[    23.910] (**) Option "TapButton3" "3"
[    23.930] (EE) Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
[    23.930] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: no supported touchpad found
[    23.930] (EE) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad Unable to query/initialize Synapti$

I've also tried completely uninstalling and reinstalling.

[user@comp ~]$ sudo pacman -R synaptics
error: 'synaptics': could not find or read package

Last edited by Maska (2011-01-07 04:50:25)

mordoc

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Registered: 2010-11-22

Posts: 11

Re: Touchpad - Synaptics

Man, the response is just like you hit the disable button to the right of the trackpad.  Could it be that this key needs to be defined somehow?

Maska

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Registered: 2010-12-27

Posts: 5

Re: Touchpad - Synaptics

Mordoc, the ALT+F7 Combination has no effect, and I don't see a disable button unless it is hardware disabled.  I'll have to check into it.  I noticed the area was really warm after it happened.

heleos

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From: Maine, USA

Registered: 2007-04-24

Posts: 678

Re: Touchpad - Synaptics

The synaptics package is called xf86-input-synaptics. You may want to remember  what you have in your config file and do

pacman -Rn xf86-input-synaptics

the -n stands for nosave which won't save your old config files, so you can start fresh. Hopefully that helps

egan

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From: Mountain View, CA

Registered: 2009-08-17

Posts: 273

Re: Touchpad - Synaptics

This might be related?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=107583

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