Hi everyone,

I have installed Slackware 13 on my Sony Vaio laptop. Before I startx everything works fine and I can see the cursor moving with the touchpad. However, after I startx the touchpad no longer works and the mouse freezes, I can use my usb wireless mouse but the touchpad never works.

This is my xorg.conf file

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dri2"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "extmod"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
#Option "CacheLines" # <i>
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel"
VendorName "Unknown Vendor"
BoardName "Unknown Board"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection


Additionally, when I type "cat /dev/input/mice" the output reacts with the touchpad, so, effectively this is the correct device.

I don't know what is wrong and I really appreciate any help.

Thanks

AFAICT, Slackware 13.0 doesn't use xorg.conf for mouse config the same way it used to, (I am a newbie to the new version, so my terminology sucks regarding the specifics)

BUT, I had the same problems you did, and synclient seems to be the new controller for the mouse.

synclient -l to list the configs of synclient

synclient TapButton1 should be equal to 1, if it's not, that's your problem.

so, in terminal - (as regular user, or root)

synclient TapButton1=1 should fix you up immediately.

There are also variables for TapButton2 and TapButton3, but regardless of whether or not these are set to 1, 2, or 3 doesn't change the way my touchpad works.

Hi

You might want to take a look at this thread to save your custom settings into HAL, instead of Xorg.conf or issuing synclient commands :
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=758184

Well,

I think I have a problem with my synaptics driver. When I type "synclient -l" I get the following:

"Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?"

My kernel have been compiled with the synaptics mouse driver so I do not know what is happening.

Thank for any additional information