I demand that Valtteri Vuorikoski may or may not have written... > On Jan 5, 2009, at 3:16 AM, Michael Pobega wrote: >> A) when going slowly on the touchpad, the mouse moves extremely slowly >> and unsmoothly. >> B) tapping DOES NOT WORK WELL. I need to tap hard and three~four times >> before a single tap is registered by the system. [snip] > I'm using patched Debian kernel and lenny Xorg and seriously had problem A > when I first applied the patch. Based on /usr/doc/xserver- > xorg-input-synaptics/README.alps, I added the appended section to my > xorg.conf.
> I didn't see problem B. Have you looked at the output from "synclient - m > 10"? The "f" column indicates the number of fingers detected and "z" is > pressure on the trackpad. Pressure is always either 0 or 128 for me; if it > has actual pressure values on newer kernel/X, you might need to tune > FingerLow/High. The device doesn't report pressure, and the driver in 2.6.28 knows about this; which is why newer xserver-xorg-input-synaptics is needed. [snip] > # From README.alps > Option "LeftEdge" "120" > Option "RightEdge" "850" > Option "TopEdge" "120" > Option "BottomEdge" "650" > Option "FingerLow" "14" > Option "FingerHigh" "15" I initially tried manually tuning these, but that didn't work too well; so I let the driver detect these for itself, and I've had no problems with that. I suggest that you do so too. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Let's keep the pound sterling It's worse than that, it's physics, Jim! _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
