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From: larsene <l_arsene@tiscali.fr>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using the touchpad on my laptop
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 09:28:06 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20050424T112751-730@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200504172016.47480.Tobias.Hirning@gmx.de

Tobias Hirning <Tobias.Hirning <at> gmx.de> writes:

> 
> Hi larsene!
> On Friday, 15. April 2005 11:53 larsene wrote:
> > I have a laptop on wich one i have installed debian.
> > My problem is that i can use my touchpad for mouving the cursor,
> > and the buttons under it for left and right click, but i cannot use
> > the "quick touch" fonctionnality (used on windows) for clicking
> > without using the button. How can i configure that?
> Do you know, which touchpad you have?
> If not, please send the output of dmesg.
> Tobias
> 

Hi larsene!
On Tuesday, 19. April 2005 21:09 you wrote:
> This is the file, hope i twill help you to help me....
It does. Your touchpad is a synaptic-touchpad.
The interesting part of dmesg is this:
#####################
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1
 Firmware: 4.6
 Sensor: 19
 new absolute packet format
 Touchpad has extended capability bits
 -> multifinger detection
 -> palm detection
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
#####################################
I have also such a thing. I attached my /etc/X11/XF86Config
The most intersting part for you is the first entry for the input 
devices. 
It starts with:
Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "synaptics"
  Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/psaux"
[...]

Another important thing is the section "Server layout".
Here you have to add/change the entry for your touchpad.
For mine it's
Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier   "Layout[all]"
  InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"              <--
  InputDevice  "Mouse[2]" "SendCoreEvents"     <-- these two entries 
  Screen       "Screen[0]"
EndSection

Try whether you can do the changes on your own, otherwise mail me 
your /etc/X11/XF86Config
And don't forget to make a copy of your XF86Config before editing. Have a lot of
fun! Tobias

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      reply	other threads:[~2005-04-24  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-15  9:53 Using the touchpad on my laptop larsene
2005-04-17 18:16 ` Tobias Hirning
2005-04-24  9:28   ` larsene [this message]

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