Touchpad behavior in a netbook

bonixavier · 05-08-2011, 11:32 AM

I got a netbook and I'd like to know how I can fix something that is annoying the heck out of me.

1- How can I set mouse tapping to off? I have searched and all the threads I could find were related to the use of the synaptics driver. However, synclient accuses no synaptics driver being loaded and it is as far as I can tell a PS/2 mouse. kcm_touchpad also is completely greyed out. I think I'll have to write a mouse.conf to place in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ but I have no idea what to put there.

Edit: Split the two questions. Better like that.

bonixavier · 05-08-2011, 04:44 PM

This is the output of xinput list-props 12, if it helps:

Code:

Device 'ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse':
        Device Enabled (135):   1
        Coordinate Transformation Matrix (137): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
        Device Accel Profile (256):     0
        Device Accel Constant Deceleration (257):       1.000000
        Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (258):       1.000000
        Device Accel Velocity Scaling (259):    10.000000
        Evdev Axis Inversion (260):     0, 0
        Evdev Axes Swap (262):  0
        Axis Labels (263):      "Rel X" (145), "Rel Y" (146)
        Button Labels (264):    "Button Left" (138), "Button Middle" (139), "Button Right" (140), "Button Wheel Up" (141), "Button Wheel Down" (142), "Button Horiz Wheel Left" (143), "Button Horiz Wheel Right" (144)
        Evdev Middle Button Emulation (265):    0
        Evdev Middle Button Timeout (266):      50
        Evdev Wheel Emulation (267):    0
        Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes (268):       0, 0, 4, 5
        Evdev Wheel Emulation Inertia (269):    10
        Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout (270):    200
        Evdev Wheel Emulation Button (271):     4
        Evdev Drag Lock Buttons (272):  0

slackb0t · 05-08-2011, 05:45 PM

I used the slackbuild for kcmtouchpad. All options are available under system settings. Not sure if this helps ...

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.../kcm_touchpad/

thegato · 05-08-2011, 07:15 PM

Don't know what kind of netbook you have but this may help you.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...000HE#Touchpad

bonixavier · 05-09-2011, 02:38 AM

God damn this mouse!!! I was finishing a reply and it auto-clicked on redo and that deleted my whole post.

Bottom line is that, despite behaving like most synaptics mice, the mouse is seen as a Logitech PS/2 wheel mouse. Its manufacturer is a brand called Elan. My netbook is a Samsung N150 Plus. I already tried kcm_touchpad and synclient, but they both failed because no synaptics driver is loaded.

Sorry if I sound harsh. Losing the post made me mad.

allend · 05-09-2011, 09:15 AM

Googling this suggests that you may be more successful if you uncomment the "#options psmouse proto=imps" line in /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.conf. There is also a suggestion to alter the RightEdge to get horizontal scrolling to work. http://www.voria.org/forum/viewtopic...36d2635d#p4240

It has been reported that the Fn-F10 hotkey works to enable/disable the touchpad. http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...66&postcount=5 as well as in a number of other distributions http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/jamies-...loud-10018571/

PS

Quote:

I think I'll have to write a mouse.conf to place in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ but I have no idea what to put there.

See http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...9/#post4299826

hevi · 05-09-2011, 10:24 AM

For your touchpad, this may be helpful: http://henryhermawan.blogspot.com/20...d-disable.html

HTH.