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 aaaages:
> 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
