Special touchpad driver?

Tralce · 11-30-2006, 05:02 PM

Dell Inspiron B130. On Windows, I was able to roll my finger down the right side of the touchpad to make it scroll. I liked that. Is there a way to work that in Slackware 11?

usaf_sp · 11-30-2006, 07:43 PM

If you are using KDE, then you can use Ksynaptics to control your touch pad. After install, Ksynaptics will be in the KDE Control Center. A word of warning though, the scroll function does not work the way that it works in windows without some tweaking.

Good Luck

Tralce · 12-01-2006, 06:12 AM

Now I'm having a protage issue.

Code:

Calculating dependencies... done!
>>> Emerging (1 of 1) kde-misc/ksynaptics-0.3.1 to /
>>> checking ebuild checksums ;-)
>>> checking auxfile checksums ;-)
>>> checking miscfile checksums ;-)
>>> checking ksynaptics-0.3.1.tar.bz2 ;-)
 * You are trying to compile kde-misc/ksynaptics-0.3.1 with the "arts" USE flag enabled.
 * However, kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.5-r7 was compiled with arts flag disabled.
 *
 * You must either disable this use flag, or recompile
 * kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.5-r7 with this arts use flag enabled.

!!! ERROR: kde-misc/ksynaptics-0.3.1 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1541:   Called dyn_setup
  ebuild.sh, line 654:   Called pkg_setup
  ebuild.sh, line 1234:   Called kde_pkg_setup
  kde.eclass, line 70:   Called die

!!! kdelibs missing arts
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.

bash-3.1#

That happens whenever I type "emerge ksynaptics"

usaf_sp · 12-01-2006, 11:42 AM

I am unfamiliar with Slackware. Is the emerge command used to compile the program? Perhaps you could compile from source with better success?

Tralce · 12-01-2006, 06:26 PM

Emerge is actually a Gentoo command (ported to Slackware) which is, I believe, a part of the portage program. It's basically a package manager like apt-get (or like yum, perhaps?) that works by typing "emerge (package name)" and it automatically compiles it and all its dependencies. Anyway, I'll try source.

usaf_sp · 12-02-2006, 12:05 AM

Although I use SuSE, I am falling in love with source compiling. I use smart, but sometimes better luck with source.

Tralce · 12-02-2006, 07:24 AM

Every time I try to open the touchpad configuration, I get this:
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g5...e/Untitled.jpg
Do I need to recompile? What's wrong here?

I should mention that there is no touchpad section in xorg.conf...

usaf_sp · 12-02-2006, 12:03 PM

This is my touchpad section of xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "synaptics"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
Option "InputFashion" "Mouse"
Option "Name" "Synaptics;Touchpad"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

If you can find this section, this is where you should put the shared memory option.

Tralce · 12-02-2006, 03:55 PM

Still isn't working... Here's my /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Code:

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

Section "Files"
	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "xtrap"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "type1"
	Load  "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option       "XkbModel"  "pc101"
	Option       "XkbLayout"  "us"
	Option       "XkbOptions"  "altwin:menu"
EndSection



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

Section "Monitor"
	#DisplaySize	  330   210	# mm
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "CPT"
	ModelName    "13a6"
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      "i810"
	VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
	BoardName   "Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller"
	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

usaf_sp · 12-03-2006, 03:31 PM

I found this post in another thread. The OP says he got the touchpad to work perfectly. Not sure about slack since I use suse, but take a look:

Quote:

Originally Posted by brgr88

I had been trying to get my Synaptics touchpad working, since it would be hard to use X mobile if I didn't have table space for a mouse.

I installed the 'tpconfig' program, which didn't work, even though it said it found my touchpad.

Then I Googled for "synaptics linux" and found the Synaptics XFree86 Touchpad driver here:
http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/

I installed that, but unfortunately, that still didn't work, so I was thinking that there's probably problems with the out-of-box Slack10.2 kernel version 2.4.31 since I wasn't seeing any touchpad-related messages in dmesg at boot time.

I proceeded to install the 2.6.13 kernel source package that comes with Slack10.2's disk 2; after putting CD in drive:
mount /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom/linux-2.6.13
pkgtool

All I installed was the source itself, no other packages. I'm sure I could've just downloaded the lastest 2.6.x kernel... Anyway, I updated my source link:
cd /usr/src
rm linux
ln -s linux-2.6.13 linux

I tried just compiling 2.6.13 as it came, but it wouldn't boot, so I restored all .config parms:
cd /usr/src/linux
make mrproper
make menuconfig

Many necessary options are turned off by default in 2.6.13, so I had to enable these:
1. File Systems ---> Reiserfs (will cause kernel panics at boot if not enabled)
2. Device Drivers ---> Network ---> Ethernet 100 ---> Broadcom 4400
3. Device Drivers ---> Sound ---> Alsa ---> everything except for debug & verbose stuff
4. Device Drivers ---> Input ---> evdev (the synaptics driver INSTALL says I needed this)
5. Device Drivers ---> Graphics ---> VGA Mode (for my beloved 80x50 console

)

Then I ran the kernel compiles:
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.13
cp /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.13

Added it to /etc/lilo.conf and re-installed LILO:
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.13
root = /dev/hda8
label = slack_2.6.13
read-only

It booted bootifully!

When I ran /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm, not only was my mouse installed, but so was my touchpad!
Additionally, since ACPI is on by default in the 2.6.13 configs, I could power off the laptop with the usual shutdown commands! It must have better hotplug compatibility support in 2.6, or maybe just because it's installed into the kernel, whereas before I was just compiling it as a module? Never thought about that...

The touchpad was recognized by X, and both the 'pad & mouse work fine there, too. Not only that, but when I quit out of X, my console fonts aren't all messed up anymore!

Now what's left on my to-do is this:
1. WiFi, which I'm not too concerned about, but still would like.
2. ACPI, when I close my lid, it shuts down the laptop altogether! but I rarely travel with the power on anyway.
3. Touchpad has that annoying tap-to-click and the Synaptics 'synclient' program still doesn't work, so X must be getting what it needs from the kernel and this "driver" is useless. Also, in Windows, running my finger up/down the right side of the touchpad will scroll the window, but nothing like that in Linux.

Here is the link to the post: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...eply&p=2261481