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ETNyx

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Registered: 2010-06-08

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Touchpad doesnt scoroll (Lenovo G455)

Hi,

Im trying get work my touchpad properly, for last two days. I tryed set it up according to arch wiki, also by some forums, but it doesnt work :-(. So now i make clean install, shoudl someone help me please?

i installed package xf86-input-synaptics
currently "default" xorg settings: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "2"
        Option "TapButton3" "3"
EndSection

but i was confused, i think this setting doesnt match any devices, because linux didnt identifi touchpad properly. There is only one pointing device connect to laptop, it must be touchpad, but

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="PS/2 Generic Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input8
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event8 
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

also in xorg.log is only "PS/2 Generic Mouse"

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

[    24.368] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PS/2 Generic Mouse (/dev/input/event8)
[    24.368] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"
[    24.368] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: always reports core events
[    24.368] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event8"
[    24.393] (--) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Found 3 mouse buttons
[    24.393] (--) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Found relative axes
[    24.393] (--) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Found x and y relative axes
[    24.393] (II) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Configuring as mouse
[    24.393] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
[    24.393] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
[    24.393] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "PS/2 Generic Mouse" (type: MOUSE)
[    24.393] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
[    24.394] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: (accel) acceleration profile 0
[    24.394] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
[    24.394] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
[    24.394] (II) PS/2 Generic Mouse: initialized for relative axes.
[    24.394] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PS/2 Generic Mouse (/dev/input/mouse0)
[    24.394] (II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)

nTia89

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Re: Touchpad doesnt scoroll (Lenovo G455)

do you use gnome ?

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ETNyx

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Re: Touchpad doesnt scoroll (Lenovo G455)

do you use gnome ?

Yes, i do

Last edited by ETNyx (2011-03-08 18:03:46)

nTia89

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Re: Touchpad doesnt scoroll (Lenovo G455)

gnome usually override xorg prefs, so you to configure touchpad you must go in gnome preferences->mouse and configure it

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ETNyx

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Re: Touchpad doesnt scoroll (Lenovo G455)

gnome usually override xorg prefs, so you to configure touchpad you must go in gnome preferences->mouse and configure it

There are only General and Accessibility tabs, tab Touchpad is missing :-( I think its same prob, linux (maybe udev?) didnt detect my touchpad, which is know as general PS/2 mouse, is there any posibility to fix this?

nTia89

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Re: Touchpad doesnt scoroll (Lenovo G455)

remove your xorg .conf and retry with my way.... there is Mouse setting

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ETNyx

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Re: Touchpad doesnt scoroll (Lenovo G455)

im not sure what you exactly mean it.

[etnyx@etnyx-laptop X11]$ tree
.
|-- twm
|   `-- system.twmrc
|-- xinit
|   |-- xinitrc
|   |-- xinitrc.d
|   |   |-- 30-dbus
|   |   |-- 40-libcanberra-gtk-module
|   |   `-- pulseaudio
|   `-- xserverrc
`-- xorg.conf.d
    |-- 10-evdev.conf
    |-- 10-quirks.conf
    |-- 10-synaptics.conf
    `-- 50-vmmouse.conf

there is my /etc/X11, i tried some "magic" but it doesnt work or it cause malfunction touchpad, keybord or both. It wasnt regenerated config files (also i never saw tab Touchpad in Gnome like on other laptop) or what you expect to do, by removing these files.

nTia89

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Re: Touchpad doesnt scoroll (Lenovo G455)

forget to remove .conf, perhaps, the ''problem'' is that you haven't installed this: mousetweaks ???

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+pc: custom | AMD Opteron 175 | nForce4 Ultra | 2GB ram DDR400 | nVidia 9800GT 1GB | ArchLinux x86_64 w/ openbox
+laptop: Apple | MacBook (2,1) | 2GB ram | Mac OS X 10.4 -> DIED
+ultrabook: Dell | XPS 13 (9343) | 8GB ram | 256GB ssd | FullHD display | Windows 8.1 64bit ArchLinux x86_64 w/ Gnome