synaptics touchpad

adityavpratap · 10-05-2009, 06:59 AM

Hi,

Running Slackware 13 on my Acer Aspire 5100 laptop.

My problem is I am unable to get Horizontal Scrolling up. Though synclient -l reveals HorizEdgeScroll=1, when I drag a finger along the bottom edge of the touchpad, instead of Horizontal Scrolling, the pages scroll Vertically. Same with the right edge, left edge or top edge.

Here is the output of synclient -l -

Quote:

Parameter settings:
LeftEdge = 1752
RightEdge = 5192
TopEdge = 1620
BottomEdge = 4236
FingerLow = 24
FingerHigh = 29
FingerPress = 255
MaxTapTime = 180
MaxTapMove = 221
MaxDoubleTapTime = 180
SingleTapTimeout = 180
ClickTime = 100
FastTaps = 0
EmulateMidButtonTime = 75
EmulateTwoFingerMinZ = 280
EmulateTwoFingerMinW = 7
VertScrollDelta = 100
HorizScrollDelta = 100
VertEdgeScroll = 1
HorizEdgeScroll = 1
CornerCoasting = 0
VertTwoFingerScroll = 1
HorizTwoFingerScroll = 0
MinSpeed = 0.4
MaxSpeed = 0.7
AccelFactor = 0.00995223
TrackstickSpeed = 40
EdgeMotionMinZ = 29
EdgeMotionMaxZ = 159
EdgeMotionMinSpeed = 1
EdgeMotionMaxSpeed = 401
EdgeMotionUseAlways = 0
UpDownScrolling = 0
LeftRightScrolling = 0
UpDownScrollRepeat = 1
LeftRightScrollRepeat = 1
ScrollButtonRepeat = 100
TouchpadOff = 0
GuestMouseOff = 0
LockedDrags = 0
LockedDragTimeout = 5000
RTCornerButton = 2
RBCornerButton = 3
LTCornerButton = 0
LBCornerButton = 0
TapButton1 = 1
TapButton2 = 3
TapButton3 = 2
ClickFinger1 = 1
ClickFinger2 = 1
ClickFinger3 = 1
CircularScrolling = 1
CircScrollDelta = 0.1
CircScrollTrigger = 0
CircularPad = 0
PalmDetect = 0
PalmMinWidth = 10
PalmMinZ = 199
CoastingSpeed = 0
PressureMotionMinZ = 29
PressureMotionMaxZ = 159
PressureMotionMinFactor = 1
PressureMotionMaxFactor = 1
GrabEventDevice = 1

Here are the contents of /etc/hal/fdi/policy/99-x11-synaptics.fdi

Quote:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>


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

<merge key="input.x11_options.VertEdgeScroll" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.HorizEdgeScroll" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.CircularScrolling" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.RTCornerButton" type="string">2</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.RBCornerButton" type="string">3</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

Any suggestions?

Thanking in advance,

grissiom · 10-05-2009, 08:47 AM

Actually the scrolling behavior is depend on the application you are using. In Opera10, the H-scroller will make the screen go up and down, no horizontal scrolling at all. But in KDE apps(such as Dolphin, Kate) the scrolling works well. What app did you test in?

Aivurn · 10-05-2009, 09:12 AM

I haven't found any solution to this problem through HAL too so I just wrote a synclient bash script with settings that I need. Then I put it in ~/.kde/Autostart

w1k0 · 10-05-2009, 10:18 AM

I managed to force Synaptics TouchPad on my ThinkPad T61 to scroll the contents displayed by some applications. I tested it with Firefox and Opera. In Firefox horizontal scrolling works. In Opera it doesn't work. Vertical scrolling works everywhere.

x11-synaptics.fdi

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">true</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.MaxTapMove" type="string">2000</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.VertEdgeScroll" type="string">true</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizEdgeScroll" type="string">true</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

adityavpratap · 10-05-2009, 10:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grissiom

Actually the scrolling behavior is depend on the application you are using. In Opera10, the H-scroller will make the screen go up and down, no horizontal scrolling at all. But in KDE apps(such as Dolphin, Kate) the scrolling works well. What app did you test in?

Firefox and Dolphin

grissiom · 10-05-2009, 08:34 PM

Ok, so it is real a problem. Here is my synaptic section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, you may have a try:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "touchpad"
        Option      "AlwaysCore"

        Driver      "synaptics"
        Option      "InputFashion" "Mouse"
        Option      "Name" "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
        Option      "SHMConfig" "on"

        Option      "Buttons" "7"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
        Option      "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
        Option      "HorizEdgeScroll" "on"
        # button 1 is right button, 2 is middle button, 3 is right button.
        Option      "LTCornerButton" "1"
        Option      "LBCornerButton" "2"
        Option      "RTCornerButton" "3"
#       enable the Tap-to-Click mode
#       Option      "TapButton1" "1"
        Option      "TapButton2" "2"
        Option      "TapButton3" "3"
EndSection

Besides, can you see any clue in /var/log/X.0.log?