Using the touchpad on my laptop

Using the touchpad on my laptop

[larsene]

Hi everyones, 

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?

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Re: Using the touchpad on my laptop

[Tobias Hirning]

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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

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Re: Using the touchpad on my laptop

[larsene]

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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