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Hi there, need to ask the community about an issue i'm having after a fresh install of centOS 7 on my laptop.
Thing is that i have no control over mouse options and also there's no option for two finger scroll under system tools->settings->mouse options.
So i went to check on x11 drivers and the package "xorg-x11-drv-synaptics.x86_64 1.7.1-13.el7" is installed.
Problem is that when i run command "synclient" from terminal, it returns "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?"
So I checked on path /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf and the file its there with my custom configuration that is the following:
so it seems that it reads my touchpad as a mouse and thats why im having this sort of issue?
the "dmesg |grep pnp" points that i have IDs FLT0101 (focaltech?)
any ideas?
donnow if this could be any use but couple of weeks ago i've tried kernel version centOS 7.1 on same laptop and i had the "two finger scroll" option within mouse settings working.
first, thanks for the response. For dmseg grep syn i get :
x555pnp 00:09: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs FLT0101 SYN0a00 SYN0002 PNP0f03 PNP0f13 PNP0f12 (active)
Can you tell us which model laptop You're using? Maybe the hardware is too new to be supported by the synaptics driver? That is often the reason that it is treated as a PS/2 mouse (as a fallback), so that at least some functionality is provided.
A quick google of ' FLT0101 SYN0a00 SYN0002 PNP0f03 PNP0f13 PNP0f12' brings up a number of links concerning this Focaltech touchpad hardware. For example, a similar model you yours mentioned in post #12 of this thread
it seems "Pilot6" has built a kernel that supports focaltech touchpads.
not sure if that's your situation, and if that kernel would be usable on centos...
I have a different laptop and run Slackware, but you said you get a message saying driver not loaded when you type synclient. Did you look at your xorg.0.log to see if there were any errors loading the synaptic module? My xorg.0.log is in /var/log directory.
Code:
bash-4.2# cat Xorg.0.log | grep synaptic*
[ 19.253] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
[ 19.254] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
[ 19.254] (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 19.255] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
[ 19.271] (II) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: found clickpad property
[ 19.271] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: x-axis range 1472 - 5766 (res 65)
[ 19.271] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: y-axis range 1408 - 5260 (res 180)
[ 19.271] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: pressure range 0 - 255
[ 19.271] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: finger width range 0 - 15
[ 19.271] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: buttons: left double triple
[ 19.271] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Vendor 0x2 Product 0x7
[ 19.271] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found
[ 19.280] (**) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) MinSpeed is now constant deceleration 2.5
[ 19.280] (**) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) MaxSpeed is now 1.75
[ 19.280] (**) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) AccelFactor is now 0.035
[ 19.281] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found
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