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
