[gentoo-user] Mouse Pad X11
Hi, due the lack of space on my desktop I decided to add a Perixx Peripad 501 Track Pad to my Gentoo Linux. The device came neither with a userguide nor a driver. The according webpage of Perixx does not offer both. According to Xorg.0.log and without any additional tasks, X11 recognized this pad as [24.595] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Mouse Pad (/dev/input/event1) [24.595] (**) Mouse Pad: Applying InputClass evdev pointer catchall [24.595] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Mouse Pad' [24.596] (**) Mouse Pad: always reports core events [24.596] (**) evdev: Mouse Pad: Device: /dev/input/event1 [24.596] (--) evdev: Mouse Pad: Vendor 0x99a Product 0xa002 [24.596] (--) evdev: Mouse Pad: Found 3 mouse buttons [24.596] (--) evdev: Mouse Pad: Found scroll wheel(s) [24.596] (--) evdev: Mouse Pad: Found relative axes [24.596] (--) evdev: Mouse Pad: Found x and y relative axes [24.596] (II) evdev: Mouse Pad: Configuring as mouse [24.596] (II) evdev: Mouse Pad: Adding scrollwheel support [24.597] (**) evdev: Mouse Pad: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 [24.597] (**) evdev: Mouse Pad: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200 [24.597] (**) Option config_info udev:/sys/devices/platform/omap/musb-ti81xx/musb-hdrc.1/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/input/input1/event1 [24.597] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Mouse Pad (type: MOUSE, id 7) [24.597] (II) evdev: Mouse Pad: initialized for relative axes. [24.599] (**) Mouse Pad: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1 [24.599] (**) Mouse Pad: (accel) acceleration profile 0 [24.599] (**) Mouse Pad: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000 [24.599] (**) Mouse Pad: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4 [24.601] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Mouse Pad (/dev/input/mouse0) [24.601] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [24.601] (II) This device may have been added with another device file. It works: That is: I can move the cursor arround and I can perform clicks by tapping on the pad. The mechanical present buttons will be recognized as button 1 and button 3. As far as I can see from the output of xev, double tapping on the pad will also be recognized as button 1. But the log tells me of three button mouse and adding scrollwheel support... I googled for any information but beside a massive presence of Synaptics stuff there was no information I can use... How can I activate/use the additional functionality as reported by the log file? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Pad X11
On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 08:32 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: How can I activate/use the additional functionality as reported by the log file? I'm not familiar with that device, but I do have a suggestion: does it respond to multitouch gestures? For example, with my trackpad on my T530, I can scroll by swiping up and down with two fingers. Does that work? -- R
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Pad X11
Randy Barlow ra...@electronsweatshop.com [13-04-06 17:24]: On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 08:32 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: How can I activate/use the additional functionality as reported by the log file? I'm not familiar with that device, but I do have a suggestion: does it respond to multitouch gestures? For example, with my trackpad on my T530, I can scroll by swiping up and down with two fingers. Does that work? -- R Hi Randy, thank you for your reply! :) I tried that ... but with no luck. The device is advertised with: Product Feature: - Cirque Glidepoint Technology - High reliable micro-switches - 2 buttons mouse clicker attached - you could also use your finger tip to tap the touchpad. for ex: 2 taps = double click, 2 fingers tap = scroll, 3 fingers tap = Right Click - USB interface connector - One touch scrolling I tried that...beside the most simple action nothing works. Since there was no driver delivered with the device and no user guide, I think plug and pray should do the magic_should_ One touch scrolling and 2 fingers tap = scroll is a contradiction, isn't it? Is there anything I have to configure (xorg.conf?) additionally? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Pad X11
meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de [13-04-06 18:52]: Randy Barlow ra...@electronsweatshop.com [13-04-06 17:24]: On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 08:32 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: How can I activate/use the additional functionality as reported by the log file? I'm not familiar with that device, but I do have a suggestion: does it respond to multitouch gestures? For example, with my trackpad on my T530, I can scroll by swiping up and down with two fingers. Does that work? -- R Hi Randy, thank you for your reply! :) I tried that ... but with no luck. The device is advertised with: Product Feature: - Cirque Glidepoint Technology - High reliable micro-switches - 2 buttons mouse clicker attached - you could also use your finger tip to tap the touchpad. for ex: 2 taps = double click, 2 fingers tap = scroll, 3 fingers tap = Right Click - USB interface connector - One touch scrolling I tried that...beside the most simple action nothing works. Since there was no driver delivered with the device and no user guide, I think plug and pray should do the magic_should_ One touch scrolling and 2 fingers tap = scroll is a contradiction, isn't it? Is there anything I have to configure (xorg.conf?) additionally? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Best regards, mcc Hi, found something: A review on www.amazon.com of this device states, that the EasyCat manual is useable when it comes to the tap/click/scroll behaviour/ useage of the PERIXX PERIPAD 501. Vie google I found cirquecattouchpadguide_revf.pdf which clearifies the needed geatures. For scrolling one has to move ONE finger on the right edge of the pad. And it scrolls! BUT unfortunately the scrollevents ALWAYS reach the taskbar and I am warped through my desktops regardless of the focus a certain windows has. This even happens, when the cursor and the focus is on the window of xev, with which I tried to catch the even. How can I channelize the events to the focussed window? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Pad X11
On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 18:48 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: One touch scrolling and 2 fingers tap = scroll is a contradiction, isn't it? Haha, yeah it is confusing sounding. Perhaps one touch scrolling means you can scroll by using a single finger on the right side of the pad? A lot of trackpads work that way, or can be configured to work that way. Is there anything I have to configure (xorg.conf?) additionally? I remember there being some kind of z axis setting, or something perhaps a little along those lines in xorg.conf. To be honest, it's been years since I last did anything with an xorg.conf since the modern Xorg is much better at automatically configuring itself, so I'm afraid I can't help you much in that department. One way that might be easy but depends on your desktop environment, is to check if there is an easy to use setting provided by your DE that can configure two finger scrolling. For example, I'm currently using Gnome 3.6 in Fedora (yeah, not Gentoo, but I'm on my work computer :) ) and I have a Two finger scroll checkbox in the Mouse Touchpad section of the System Settings program. There's also a checkbox for Tap to click. I use Gnome 2 stable on my home Gentoo computer, and I *think* it may have something similar, but I'm not there to verify (and it's a desktop computer with no trackpad so I've never used that feature there.) I used to use KDE in Gentoo at my previous job, and I believe it had something similar in its settings but I don't have any current KDE installs to check it with. If you aren't using either of those, perhaps your DE provides something like that too. If not, perhaps someone else on here will chime in :) Thank you very much for any help in advance! No problem, and apologies that it's not super complete. I'm more of a backend kind of dude, so my familiarity with DE stuff is mostly from a user's perspective (i.e., GUI configuration). -- Randy Barlow
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Pad X11
On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 19:49 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: For scrolling one has to move ONE finger on the right edge of the pad. And it scrolls! BUT unfortunately the scrollevents ALWAYS reach the taskbar and I am warped through my desktops regardless of the focus a certain windows has. This even happens, when the cursor and the focus is on the window of xev, with which I tried to catch the even. How can I channelize the events to the focussed window? This is very unexpected behavior. I'd be very surprised if the hardware is capable of causing this behavior, unless it is somehow sending a set of keyboard shortcuts that correspond to switching desktops. I'd bet that if you are having that problem, a normal mouse's scrollwheel would cause the exact same problem. Do you have a normal USB mouse that you can try that with? If the problem happens with a USB mouse as well, I'd guess that something is configured strangely in your desktop environment's settings. If the USB mouse behaves normally, I guess something must be really weird about that touchpad, but I'm not sure what it would be. -- R
Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Pad X11
On Saturday 06 Apr 2013 18:49:31 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de [13-04-06 18:52]: Randy Barlow ra...@electronsweatshop.com [13-04-06 17:24]: On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 08:32 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: How can I activate/use the additional functionality as reported by the log file? I'm not familiar with that device, but I do have a suggestion: does it respond to multitouch gestures? For example, with my trackpad on my T530, I can scroll by swiping up and down with two fingers. Does that work? Hi Randy, thank you for your reply! :) I tried that ... but with no luck. The device is advertised with: Product Feature: - Cirque Glidepoint Technology - High reliable micro-switches - 2 buttons mouse clicker attached - you could also use your finger tip to tap the touchpad. for ex: 2 taps = double click, 2 fingers tap = scroll, 3 fingers tap = Right Click - USB interface connector - One touch scrolling I tried that...beside the most simple action nothing works. Since there was no driver delivered with the device and no user guide, I think plug and pray should do the magic_should_ One touch scrolling and 2 fingers tap = scroll is a contradiction, isn't it? Is there anything I have to configure (xorg.conf?) additionally? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Best regards, mcc Hi, found something: A review on www.amazon.com of this device states, that the EasyCat manual is useable when it comes to the tap/click/scroll behaviour/ useage of the PERIXX PERIPAD 501. Vie google I found cirquecattouchpadguide_revf.pdf which clearifies the needed geatures. For scrolling one has to move ONE finger on the right edge of the pad. And it scrolls! BUT unfortunately the scrollevents ALWAYS reach the taskbar and I am warped through my desktops regardless of the focus a certain windows has. This even happens, when the cursor and the focus is on the window of xev, with which I tried to catch the even. How can I channelize the events to the focussed window? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc Did you try taping once (or twice in quick succession - double click) to select an application window first? Do you get a different scroll event if instead of moving your finger up/down on the right edge of the pad, or left/right at the bottom end of the pad, you move up/down two fingers apart from each other? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
