[SOLVED] eee pc 1005 Synaptic Touchpad Gestures do not work.

JSlack · 04-10-2010, 08:47 PM

Hello All,

I have an Asus eeepc 1005pe with Slackware-Current installed. I downloaded current and installed yesterday.

Out of the box almost everything worked fine except the touchpad clicking, two finger scrolling or three finger right click.

I did a little searching and modified /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/11-x11-synaptics.fdi file

I added

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<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">2</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">3</merge>

<merge key="input.x11_options.VertTwoFingerScroll" type="string">false</merge>

to the file file as below

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">2</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">3</merge>

<merge key="input.x11_options.VertTwoFingerScroll"
type="string">false</merge>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>


</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

I was able to get the touch function to activate after a reboot. Now I am able to click using the touchpad, but I am still not able to use the two finger scrolling or the three finger right click

Help

allend · 04-11-2010, 09:12 AM

Rather than modifying /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/11-x11-synaptics.fdi directly you are better copying the file to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ and modifying the copy there. That way your local configuration will not be overwritten in a future upgrade.
If you want VertTwoFingerScroll then you need to change from false to true here.

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I do not have an Asus eeepc but rather an Acer eMachine so YMMV. On this I also need to have

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as this touchpad reports a two finger touch as an increased pressure. Other models may require EmulateTwoFingerMinW.

You can determine the behaviour of your touchpad through the use of the command 'synclient -m 100'. You may need to add this for this to work.

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I prefer to enable button 2 and button 3 events by mapping them to the left top and bottom corners

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There is detailed information available in 'man synaptics'.

trumpet_tom · 04-11-2010, 10:41 AM

I used the .fdi file from the arch wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...L_config_files) to set up my eee 1000h. It's not as well commented but has everything you've mentioned. I assume the two touchpads aren't that different..I just saved it in /etc/hal/fdi/policy.

JSlack · 04-11-2010, 02:16 PM

@allend
Thank You very Much. Solved!

I did enable true for the below string

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But it did not work.

I then added

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and was able to get my two touch scrolling. Thank You.

@ trumpet Tom
I modified my file as you recommended but that did not work on this Asus 1005PE. Thank You

my file now looks like this just in case anyone else wants to copy or see

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">2</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">3</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.VertTwoFingerScroll" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.VertEdgeScroll" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.HorizTwoFingerScroll" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" type="string">60</merge>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>


</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>