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 1JFQB0-0001nh-NO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:32:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE1D6E0B7B; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:32:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.251]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A6C0E0B7A for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:32:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c8so124502ana.47 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:32:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=GuBTpwz1dFoaW7nY3Eha45Sz7UqzHwsFFYymvmsIF18=; b=rYwPbvOVca35fvyQ9K9RfmxsMmKCjM5ys+n0+KjDA/dP681zA61AgjQNTcGLQU27T2OLP1ucP92gbBaVqLPvwTn5rOEPOV+8LvNEQ4tzd5QMbFXMrKaRbkkmwe2g3eY90lAg1ISedSuUBU3gI59BdiCc3VdKiQUOpK1RdqZIKZI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=EpGrKJJVYj+41qnI1EavPzungX29HvCft2suJR0W7SZ/hCFjKehiYvWy9bp5GTcp5IdXUBdE+RAmN2pVeeqIX60E8qum0+Bpsp0XZqikkNIDTGnt6nKDk1h2cy4MpD9cUCCriRPYg2N4/jw4rxr1FFzl5spBuoCzafhNAXImk3k= Received: by 10.100.121.12 with SMTP id t12mr3846874anc.46.1200558731920; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:32:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.200.112? ( [196.211.71.34]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a30sm2650894rnb.16.2008.01.17.00.31.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:32:11 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Touchpad in "absolute" mode Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:21:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200801161913.23162.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200801170028.53127.saschahlusiak@arcor.de> In-Reply-To: <200801170028.53127.saschahlusiak@arcor.de> 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: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801171021.54075.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: c365d24a-b3a6-43bb-91d9-03f5e8ae9d20 X-Archives-Hash: 30787833d16c06ccfefc302ff56de870 On Thursday 17 January 2008, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: > 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 will scan the attached devices and hotplug available mice. The > touchpad is recognized as a mouse and the "evdev" driver is loaded > with uses absolute mode since the device emits absolute coordinates. > These devices are even added when you already have a mouse input > device in the xorg.conf, thus giving you a lot of mice that use the > same data (some guys report double clicks on single clicks, keymaps > changed, the touchpad does not work right anymore). > > Put > Option "AutoAddDevices" "false" Excellent! thanks. That fixed the problem, and also solved erratic double-click behaviour I was getting in Konqueror as well alan > in the Section Serverflags and xorg will stop to hotplug mice. > Or add a custom policy file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ to add the > touchpad with the synaptics driver instead of evdev. > > Sascha -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list