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 1L5B1H-0005lG-G7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:24:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48F69E081B; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:24:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out3.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.76]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E053FE081B for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:24:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D277D191A for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:24:39 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <492CC139.3090007@netspace.net.au> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:53:37 +0930 From: Iain Buchanan User-Agent: Thunderbird/3.0a2 (X11; 2008072418) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling! References: <492C0153.20500@netspace.net.au> <20081125150016.GA32757@darling.DHCP-GERAL> In-Reply-To: <20081125150016.GA32757@darling.DHCP-GERAL> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a989da05-8190-4ded-aac0-da387a36bf3c X-Archives-Hash: ff9902d4c54c227f6e880342b3bfe752 j.romildo@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:14:51PM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I can't live without my touchpad extentions (scrolling, tap to click, >> etc). All provided somehow by the synaptics driver, but I've never >> really looked into how. >> >> Recently I noticed it stopped working but I don't know what I've changed >> as I've been docked for so long with a usb mouse. [snip] > Yesterday I was just looking for a solution to this same problem on my > notebook. > > I have found out that synaptics now defaults to dual finger scrolling > (see the man mage), and tap to click is off by default. I have added the > following in my configuration file: hm, I don't like it when defaults change so dramatically! So the problem wasn't evdev / hal related. Why on earth would tap to click be turned off by default now? Two finger scrolling was on, but "broken" on the new synaptic driver, as every time I scroll up, then lift my finger off, it scrolls down further than I can scroll up! Even the acceleration had changed to make it unusable. I've left the evdev mouse driver as a second mouse to catch all usb mice, and I have my touchpad as the default: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptic Touchpad" Driver "synaptics" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" # turn on finger tap: Option "TapButton1" "1" # Left button # don't use two finger scrolling: Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "false" Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "false" # use edge scroll areas: Option "VertEdgeScroll" "true" Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "true" #continue scrolling when touchpad end reached Option "CornerCoasting" "true" Option "CoastingSpeed" "2" #set speed and accel: Option "MinSpeed" "0.20" Option "MaxSpeed" "0.60" Option "AccelFactor" "0.020" EndSection Note I only used TapButton1, not 2 and 3, as I want to double tap for a double click, not double tap for a midle/right click. thanks for all the suggestions! -- Iain Buchanan Binary, adj.: Possessing the ability to have friends of both sexes.