http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt
I glanced over this, but my problems are the same as what Gwendolyn van der Linden describes, I just hadn't tried lower settings.
I had to go through a bit of trouble to get my synaptics touchpad working. It wasnt hard, it was just different than with 2.4 -- it threw it into a ps/2 compat mode, which i thought was how the device normally worked, wheras I had to change it to use a different mouse driver and protocol.
What did you do to get it working? My laptop touchpad won't work at all.
(mm-sources has a synaptics option in the kernel, but I have not tried that yet (just noticed it... im not using mm0sources right now))
I emabled all the regular mouse stuff, as well as HID for my usb mouse. It didnt come up in /dev/input/mice at all, but if you `cat /dev/input/
event0` you see that there are event notices for the touchpad.
So simply edit the XF86Config and change the driver to "synaptics" (this driver is included in a recent version of the X ebuild, otherwise search the forums for an excellent howto on all of what I am describing which covers installing the driver). Change the protocol to "event", and the device to /dev/input/event0 (may change on your system, but i think that is unlikely).
Heres the relavant section:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Protocol" "event"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0"
Option "LeftEdge" "1325"
Option "RightEdge" "5500"
Option "TopEdge" "4400"
Option "BottomEdge" "1350"
Option "FingerLow" "25"
Option "FingerHigh" "30"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "150"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.02"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.18"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.0010"
# Option "Repeater" "/dev/ps2mouse"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "200"
EndSectionThere is alot more info in the tarball that you get from the synaptics driver, so even if your X ebuild already installed it, i suggest grabbing the tarball. There are tools to tell you the position and pressure your finger is on on the touchpad. You can use these to specify the proper pad ranges for your combination of pad and finger.
-Chris I
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