[gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!
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. I've had the same section layout for ges: Section InputDevice Identifier Synaptic Touchpad Driver synaptics Option Device /dev/input/mouse0 Option SendCoreEvents true Option Protocol auto-dev EndSection The xorg.0.log error is: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad can't grab event device, errno=16 I tried first changing Option GrabEventDevice false but that didn't work. I noticed this: (II) config/hal: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad so I thought maybe hal is grabbing the touchpad and interfering somehow. I tried to turn off hal in my serverlayout section: Option AutoAddDevices false but that doesn't help either. Now there's hardly any synaptic messages in xorg.0.log, no errors, and I still can't scroll. I'm sure theres some simple USE flag or option that I need to use but I can't find it! More to the point I would like to understand why it worked for so long but doesn't now (I've been using a similar xorg.conf file for... a long time!). any suggestions? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au It is up to us to produce better-quality movies. -- Lloyd Kaufman, producer of Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator
Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!
Iain Buchanan schrieb: 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. Probably the new evdev-driver overrides synaptics. If you do not need evdev and can live with the normal drivers like kbd for keyboard and synaptics, you can try to disable it. There are various ways for doing it (google it), I recommend: echo x11-apps/xinit -hal /etc/portage/package,use remove evdev from /etc/make.conf INPUT_DEVICES emerge -avC x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev emerge -av1 x11-base/xorg-server x11-apps/xinit Restart x-server/xdm/whatever.
Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:14:51 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The xorg.0.log error is: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad can't grab event device, errno=16 [...] any suggestions? thanks, Am I right, if I'm assuming, you're using HAL? Maybe you could try this workaround from the archlinux-bugzilla: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12143 HTH Uwe
Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!
Probably the new evdev-driver overrides synaptics. If you do not need evdev and can live with the normal drivers like kbd for keyboard and synaptics, you can try to disable it. I hope you don't consider this to be thread hijacking, but can you point me to a simple and high-level (but not exaggeratedly dumbed-down, as articles by mainstream media journalists tend to be) explanation of what evdev is good for? My only input devices are a PS2 keyboard with standard Brazilian layout (with no foolish extra multimedia keys) and a PS2 mouse with two buttons and one scroll wheel that also works as a third button. Do I need/want evdev? OT: I like to keep my system simple and disable what I don't use. I like to be able to understand my system. My point of view is, that when I keep my system simple (such as by using Xfce with the minimal USE flag, instead of Gnome/KDE and foolish 3d effects), it not only gets very fast and stable, but also far simpler allowing me to understand it. When something goes wrong in Ubuntu, I often have little clue of the cause. When something goes wrong in my simple Gentoo system, it is far easier to find the cause. Speaking of Ubuntu, I have the impression that they are becoming a system that Just Works most of the time, but if you are unlucky and it doesn't work, it Just Doesn't Work and it is hard to find the cause. I continue to advocate Ubuntu to Linux newcomers, but my own system will remain Gentoo. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds
Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!
My only input devices are a PS2 keyboard with standard Brazilian layout (with no foolish extra multimedia keys) and a PS2 mouse with two buttons and one scroll wheel that also works as a third button. Do I need/want evdev? I should put this in a more specific manner: would it be safe/wise to remove evdev from INPUT_DEVICES (which currently includes evdev, keyboard and mouse) ? The relevant sections of xorg.conf are Section InputDevice Identifier BrazilianKeyboard Driver kbd Option AutoRepeat 500 30 Option XkbRules xorg Option XkbModel abnt2 Option XkbLayout br EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier SimpleMouse Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/input/mice Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 EndSection
Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 08:44, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. I've had the same section layout for ges: Section InputDevice Identifier Synaptic Touchpad Driver synaptics Option Device /dev/input/mouse0 Option SendCoreEvents true Option Protocol auto-dev EndSection Add the following line: Option VertEdgeScroll 1 -- Andrey Vul A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Rodney Dangerfield - I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.
Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!
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. I've had the same section layout for ges: Section InputDevice Identifier Synaptic Touchpad Driver synaptics Option Device /dev/input/mouse0 Option SendCoreEvents true Option Protocol auto-dev EndSection [...] I'm sure theres some simple USE flag or option that I need to use but I can't find it! More to the point I would like to understand why it worked for so long but doesn't now (I've been using a similar xorg.conf file for... a long time!). any suggestions? 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: Section InputDevice Identifier Touchpad Driver synaptics Option Device /dev/input/mice Option Protocol auto-dev Option Emulate3Buttons yes Option SendCoreEvents true Option SHMConfig true Option TapButton1 1 # Left button #Option TapButton2 2 # Right button #Option TapButton3 3 # Middle button EndSection Romildo
Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb: My only input devices are a PS2 keyboard with standard Brazilian layout (with no foolish extra multimedia keys) and a PS2 mouse with two buttons and one scroll wheel that also works as a third button. Do I need/want evdev? I should put this in a more specific manner: would it be safe/wise to remove evdev from INPUT_DEVICES (which currently includes evdev, keyboard and mouse) ? The relevant sections of xorg.conf are [...] I'm not really an X11-guru but I'm pretty sure you don't need evdev. As far as I understand it, the big advantage of evdev is that it's generic. As a user, you don't have to worry about which driver you need because evdev fits them all. As a developer, you only need to maintain one module. You also don't need to configure it in your xorg.conf because evdev grabs them all from udev (hald?). With a 'conservative' system like yours (no special hardware, no daily plug'n'play, ...) you don't need it as long as evdev does not surpass the other drivers in other regions like configurability, performance, whatever. Hell, even I don't need it and I rely on synaptics, three different USB-mice (two of them with additional buttons) and multimedia buttons on two different laptop or laptop-like keyboards (USB and PS2). All of it with daily suspend-to-disk, suspend-to-ram, plug'n'play and usage of a docking station.
