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Re: [LUG] Laptop touch pad

 

Thanks for the reply, I was really hopeful that would have been the
problem solved! Unfortunately TapButton1 = 1 already, same for
TapButton2 and 3...

Back to googling a bit more I think...

On 18/10/06, Matt <mknight@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 October 2006 20:14, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> > Does anyone have any experience with laptop touchpads? Specifically
> > the synaptic driver?
> Yes indeed.
>
> > I've got my touchpad set up quite nicely so it's
> > not too slow etc but I can't for the life of me get the tap to click
> > to work on it, it's not vital but it would make me a bit happier and
> > slightly less frustrated.
> I used to have exactly the same problem on a Sony Vaio PCG-FX805/Debian Etch.
>
> >
> > Here's the relavent part of my xorg.conf file:
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >         Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
> >         Driver          "synaptics"
> >         Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
> >         Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
> >         Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
> >         Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "0"
> >         Option          "MinSpeed"              "0.02"
> >         Option          "MaxSpeed"              "0.580"
> >         Option          "AccelFactor"           "0.450"
> >         Option          "MaxTapTime"            "1000"
> >         Option          "MaxTapMove"            "220"
> > EndSection
> >
> > As you can see I've arleady been playing with the "MaxTapTime" options
> > and I know, well I think, mine is currently set to a somewhat absurd
> > setting but smaller ones didn't make any noticable differences
> > (neither does this setting however!).
>
> >From the command line, "synclient -l" (that's synclient minus ell, not one)
> will list all your settings. Look out for
>     ...
>     TapButton1           = 1
>     TapButton2           = 2
>     TapButton3           = 3
>     ...
> in there somewhere.
>
> If TapButton1 is anything other than 1, it won't left-click-to-tap.
> You can use "synclient TapButton1=1" to see whether it works or not.
> There may be some other stuff to dicker with, but that was the crux of it for
> me.
>
> You may or may not then need to find out why it wasn't correct to begin with
> (if you want it to work when you next login).
>
> In my case (I use KDE), I did have ksynaptics installed and it was not
> compatible with the latest synaptics driver.
> Uninstalling ksynaptics cured it permanently.
>
> HTH
>
>
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --
> > Jon
>
> OK.
> Matt
>
> PS
> Here is my entire synclient -l output for reference
> -$ synclient -l
> Parameter settings:
>     LeftEdge             = 120
>     RightEdge            = 830
>     TopEdge              = 120
>     BottomEdge           = 650
>     FingerLow            = 14
>     FingerHigh           = 15
>     MaxTapTime           = 180
>     MaxTapMove           = 110
>     MaxDoubleTapTime     = 180
>     SingleTapTimeout     = 180
>     ClickTime            = 100
>     FastTaps             = 0
>     EmulateMidButtonTime = 75
>     VertScrollDelta      = 20
>     HorizScrollDelta     = 20
>     VertEdgeScroll       = 1
>     HorizEdgeScroll      = 1
>     VertTwoFingerScroll  = 0
>     HorizTwoFingerScroll = 0
>     MinSpeed             = 0.3
>     MaxSpeed             = 0.75
>     AccelFactor          = 0.015
>     EdgeMotionMinZ       = 30
>     EdgeMotionMaxZ       = 160
>     EdgeMotionMinSpeed   = 200
>     EdgeMotionMaxSpeed   = 200
>     EdgeMotionUseAlways  = 0
>     UpDownScrolling      = 1
>     LeftRightScrolling   = 1
>     UpDownRepeat         = 1
>     LeftRightRepeat      = 1
>     ScrollButtonRepeat   = 100
>     TouchpadOff          = 0
>     GuestMouseOff        = 0
>     LockedDrags          = 0
>     RTCornerButton       = 2
>     RBCornerButton       = 3
>     LTCornerButton       = 0
>     LBCornerButton       = 0
>     TapButton1           = 1
>     TapButton2           = 2
>     TapButton3           = 3
>     CircularScrolling    = 1
>     CircScrollDelta      = 0.1
>     CircScrollTrigger    = 2
>     CircularPad          = 0
>     PalmDetect           = 1
>     PalmMinWidth         = 10
>     PalmMinZ             = 200
>     CoastingSpeed        = 0
>     PressureMotionMinZ   = 30
>     PressureMotionMaxZ   = 160
>     PressureMotionMinFactor = 1
>     PressureMotionMaxFactor = 1
>
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