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rg_arc

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Registered: 2011-03-20

Posts: 508

Acer Aspire 4810TZ touchpad doesn't click with tapping

I recently installed Arch Linux on my Acer Aspire. I am using Gnome with this system. My touchpad seems to work except it doesn't have scrolling or click on tap. Also, the movements aren't smooth.

TouchPad (/dev/input/event8)
[    26.957] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "evdev touchpad catchall"
[    26.957] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: always reports core events
[    26.957] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Device: "/dev/input/event8"
[    26.963] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Found 3 mouse buttons
[    26.963] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Found absolute axes
[    26.963] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Found x and y absolute axes
[    26.963] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Found absolute touchpad.
[    26.963] (II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Configuring as touchpad
[    26.963] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
[    26.963] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
[    26.963] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" (type: TOUCHPAD)
[    26.963] (II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: initialized for absolute axes.
[    26.963] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (/dev/input/mouse0)
[    26.964] (II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)
[    26.964] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PC Speaker (/dev/input/event1)

Here is my Xorg.0.log file. I can't figure out exactly why I can't get the tap to click option to work as well as the scrolling...etc... Help would be much appreciated!

xs

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From: San Jose, CA.

Registered: 2011-04-06

Posts: 92

Re: Acer Aspire 4810TZ touchpad doesn't click with tapping

may be a stupid question, but have you installed synaptics?

# sudo pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Synaptics

Last edited by xs (2011-04-06 06:43:12)

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rg_arc

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Registered: 2011-03-20

Posts: 508

Re: Acer Aspire 4810TZ touchpad doesn't click with tapping

actually I do have that installed... I figured out how to fix this problem.. but it was really unexpected. I went to gconf editor and changed the settings for the mouse pad. I believe that fixed it but it took my computer two or three reboots to actually make that happen. I am not sure what went wrong actually.