[SOLVED] Noob question regarding synaptics driver

aditya.mukundan · 05-09-2017, 12:37 AM

in slackbuilds .org i have seen xf86 synaptics driver for installing this will i requre multilib or can i dorpm2tgz for 64 bit xorg synaptics driver??

willysr · 05-09-2017, 12:51 AM

SBo does not officially support multilib (even though some scripts are multilib-ready), so no, you don't need multilib for synaptics driver.

aditya.mukundan · 05-09-2017, 01:53 AM

okay so i will try it .i'm not on my system now .it threw up some error .i'll post abck with xinput and install logs.

willysr · 05-09-2017, 04:49 AM

please make sure you have full installation of Slackware64-14.2

kjhambrick · 05-09-2017, 04:55 AM

Hmmm ...

What version of Slackware are you running ?

Wasn't xf86-input-synaptics removed from SBo because it was added as an Official Slackware Package sometime around the Slackware 12.2 release ?

-- kjh

bassmadrigal · 05-09-2017, 05:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kjhambrick

What version of Slackware are you running ?

Wasn't xf86-input-synaptics removed from SBo because it was added as an Official Slackware Package sometime around the Slackware 12.2 release ?

Yes, the synaptics driver is included in Slackware, although, there is a possibility it will eventually be replaced by libinput, but it hasn't happened yet.

Code:

x/xf86-input-libinput-0.23.0-x86_64-1.txz:  Added.
  This is the new generic X.Org input driver which replaces evdev for most
  purposes.  It does not (for now) replace xf86-input-synaptics or
  xf86-input-vmmouse.  If this driver package is missing then X will fall
  back to using xf86-input-evdev as before.
  Thanks to Robby Workman.

aditya.mukundan · 05-09-2017, 09:25 AM

I am having slackware 14.1 .

i tried installing and i got this during executing the slackbuild

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking build system type... i486-slackware-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i486-slackware-linux-gnu
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: in `/tmp/SBo/xf86-input-synaptics-0.99.1':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

This is the xinput that i got

bash-4.2# xinput
âŽ¡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
âŽœ â†³ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
âŽ£ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
â†³ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
â†³ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
â†³ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
â†³ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
â†³ Power Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
â†³ Sleep Button id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
â†³ Integrated_Webcam_HD id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
â†³ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
â†³ Speakup id=15 [slave keyboard (3)]
â†³ Dell WMI hotkeys id=16 [slave keyboard (3)]
bash-4.2#

I am running on slackware 14.1 is this going to be a problem?should i upgrade it to 14.2?

bassmadrigal · 05-09-2017, 10:33 AM

Slackware 14.1 already has the synaptics driver... at least if you did a full install (or at least install all of the x/ series). You can verify if you have it installed using:

Code:

ls /var/log/packages/*synaptics*

If, for some reason, you're missing this, you can download it from any Slackware mirror. You can use http://packages.slackware.com to find it and download it. However, if you're missing that, you could be missing several other key packages (which could explain the error you're seeing when you try to compile it).

aditya.mukundan · 05-09-2017, 10:39 AM

can you tell me how to install it?i did slackpkg upgrade and also installed a full install but still cannot understand how some packages are missing .

I have got this

/var/log/packages/xf86-input-synaptics-1.7.1-x86_64-2

ponce · 05-09-2017, 11:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aditya.mukundan

can you tell me how to install it?i did slackpkg upgrade and also installed a full install but still cannot understand how some packages are missing

if you want to be sure to have all the packages do a

Code:

slackpkg install slackware64

aditya.mukundan · 05-09-2017, 11:33 AM

i am doing it right now i saw some KDE and noarch packages getting installed although one more thing i'm seeing 50-synaptics and vm-mouse in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/......

bassmadrigal · 05-09-2017, 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aditya.mukundan

can you tell me how to install it?i did slackpkg upgrade and also installed a full install but still cannot understand how some packages are missing .

I have got this

/var/log/packages/xf86-input-synaptics-1.7.1-x86_64-2

If you have something in /var/log/packages/, that means it is already installed. So there's no reason to compile it and usually no reason to reinstall it (unless something corrupted it -- in that case, you could use slackpkg reinstall xf86-input-synaptics to reinstall it).

At this point, we should ask the question of what are you trying to do? The driver is already installed, and the system usually has decent defaults. If it isn't working or isn't working as you'd like, we need to start from there.

aditya.mukundan · 05-09-2017, 08:36 PM

My touchpad isn't working so just wanted to see if installing proper driver would make it work or not also i wanted to know if there's any touchpad tools for settings in KDE desktop ,seems like i only have it for mouse not for touchpad.I have gone through some threads and triedd but still cannot get it to work.

bassmadrigal · 05-09-2017, 08:46 PM

KDE doesn't have touchpad specific settings. Can you post the output of the following?

Code:

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log
cat /proc/bus/input/devices
xinput --list

aditya.mukundan · 05-09-2017, 08:54 PM

bash-4.2# cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=sysrq kbd event0
B: PROP=0
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=1100f02902002 8380307cf910f001 feffffdfffefffff fffffffffffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

I: Bus=0006 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
N: Name="Speakup"
P: Phys=speakup/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event1
B: PROP=0
B: EV=3
B: KEY=100000000000 0

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0005 Version=0000
N: Name="Lid Switch"
P: Phys=PNP0C0D/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input2
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=event2
B: PROP=0
B: EV=21
B: SW=1

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button"
P: Phys=PNP0C0C/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input3
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event3
B: PROP=0
B: EV=3
B: KEY=10000000000000 0

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0003 Version=0000
N: Name="Sleep Button"
P: Phys=PNP0C0E/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0E:00/input/input4
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event4
B: PROP=0
B: EV=3
B: KEY=4000 0 0

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button"
P: Phys=LNXPWRBN/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event5
B: PROP=0
B: EV=3
B: KEY=10000000000000 0

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
N: Name="Dell WMI hotkeys"
P: Phys=wmi/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd rfkill event6
B: PROP=0
B: EV=13
B: KEY=1500b00000000 200300000 0 0
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0000 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
N: Name="HDA Intel MID HDMI/DP,pcm=3"
P: Phys=ALSA
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input7
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=event7
B: PROP=0
B: EV=21
B: SW=140

I: Bus=0000 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
N: Name="HDA Intel PCH Front Headphone"
P: Phys=ALSA
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input8
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=event8
B: PROP=0
B: EV=21
B: SW=4

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0c45 Product=6a04 Version=3028
N: Name="Integrated_Webcam_HD"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.5/button
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.5/1-1.5:1.0/input/input9
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event9
B: PROP=0
B: EV=3
B: KEY=100000 0 0 0

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0006 Version=0000
N: Name="Video Bus"
P: Phys=LNXVIDEO/video/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/device:07/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input10
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event10
B: PROP=0
B: EV=3
B: KEY=3e000b00000000 0 0 0

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0006 Version=0000
N: Name="Video Bus"
P: Phys=LNXVIDEO/video/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:01/input/input11
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event11
B: PROP=0
B: EV=3
B: KEY=3e000b00000000 0 0 0

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c52f Version=0111
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.3/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.0/input/input12
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event12
B: PROP=0
B: EV=17
B: KEY=ffff0000 0 0 0 0
B: REL=143
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=046d Product=c52f Version=0111
N: Name="Logitech USB Receiver"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.3/input1
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.1/input/input13
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event13
B: PROP=0
B: EV=1f
B: KEY=4837fff072ff32d bf54444600000000 1 20f908b17c000 677bfad9415fed 9ed68000004400 10000002
B: REL=40
B: ABS=100000000
B: MSC=10