From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JFHhN-0006iS-NG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:29:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90757E0A90; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:29:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.49]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5E42E0A8F for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:29:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-in-15-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-15-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.32]) by mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEFB2302BA8; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:29:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.49]) by mail-in-15-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE4B97240B1; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:29:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from sascha.wg (i528C3EA1.versanet.de [82.140.62.161]) (Authenticated sender: dralgebra@arcor.de) by mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A6AE3425E5; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:29:09 +0100 (CET) From: Sascha Hlusiak To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Touchpad in "absolute" mode Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:28:47 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: Alan McKinnon References: <200801161913.23162.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200801161913.23162.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1339896.JcSRsJHLIX"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200801170028.53127.saschahlusiak@arcor.de> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92/5488/Wed Jan 16 21:44:30 2008 on mail-in-09.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: f80dcaad-52fa-4eec-9fef-158b26aef231 X-Archives-Hash: 8e2e2f9bf9139c7d76cf639aa2f47e9a --nextPart1339896.JcSRsJHLIX Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Mittwoch 16 Januar 2008 18:13:22 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > Hi all, > > I haven't seen this one before. My touchpad mouse works normally, until > I lift my finger and place it somewhere else. Normally, the pointer > would stay where it is and only move when my finger moves. What happens > now is my I touch the pad, the pointer moves to a point on the screen > corresponding to where I touch the pad. Touch pad on left edge, pointer > moves to left edge of screen, then reacts normally to finger moving > again. The "stick mouse" works fine. > > I get the same result without an xorg.conf, just letting xorg figure > stuff out for itself. Stuff is figured out itself now anyway. :-S You have hal-0.5.10 installed and compiled xorg-server with hal. Now hal wi= ll=20 scan the attached devices and hotplug available mice. The touchpad is=20 recognized as a mouse and the "evdev" driver is loaded with uses absolute=20 mode since the device emits absolute coordinates.=20 These devices are even added when you already have a mouse input device in = the=20 xorg.conf, thus giving you a lot of mice that use the same data (some guys= =20 report double clicks on single clicks, keymaps changed, the touchpad does n= ot=20 work right anymore).=20 Put Option "AutoAddDevices" "false" in the Section Serverflags and xorg will stop to hotplug mice.=20 Or add a custom policy file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ to add the touchpad wit= h=20 the synaptics driver instead of evdev. Sascha --nextPart1339896.JcSRsJHLIX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHjpM1OyDtNneHFrMRAjzgAJwMrM0yaRDQAmg3r8EhKHhbwBHBIwCeN6ae Xxw8Ih3nYJRbBYU7HE35was= =sTW7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1339896.JcSRsJHLIX-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list