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Old 02-24-2007, 12:00 AM   #1
spinelli
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Synaptics Touchpad on Asus Z61A Laptop


I just installed Slackware 11.0 on my Asus Z61A laptop. I am using the fluxbox window manager. Everything works great except for the synaptics touchpad. It does not scroll when I move my finger along the right hand edge. I followed the recommendations from the following thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ptics+touchpad

I followed the instruction from this site to install the synaptics driver for X11.

http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/

Here is lsmod:

Code:
Module                  Size  Used by
i915                   16512  1 
drm                    59796  2 i915
ipv6                  223584  10 
snd_seq_dummy           2820  0 
snd_seq_oss            28928  0                                                                                                               snd_seq_midi_event      5888  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                43984  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          6284  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            38048  0 
snd_mixer_oss          15616  1 snd_pcm_oss
capability              3336  0 
commoncap               5376  1 capability
lp                      9800  0 
parport_pc             24132  1 
parport                30024  2 lp,parport_pc
pcspkr                  2432  0 
psmouse                34952  0 
pcmcia                 30116  0 
yenta_socket           23436  1 
sg                     26524  0 
8139too                21376  0 
rsrc_nonstatic         10752  1 yenta_socket
sdhci                  12544  0 
mii                     4864  1 8139too
mmc_core               18320  1 sdhci
pcmcia_core            34192  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
evdev                   8064  0 
serio_raw               5252  0 
intel_agp              19612  1 
agpgart                28080  3 drm,intel_agp
rt2500                220260  1 
snd_hda_intel          14356  0 
snd_hda_codec         136112  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm                73736  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer              19332  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    43364  9 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               7136  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          7560  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
Here is /etc/X11/xorg.conf :

Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "X.org Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
        ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
        Load "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option       "XkbModel"  "pc101"
        Option       "XkbLayout"  "us,us,us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "True"
        Option      "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Input Device"
        Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver     "synaptics"
        Option     "SendCoreEvents" "true"
        Option     "Device" "/dev/psaux"
        Option     "Protocol" "auto-dev"
        Option     "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
        Option     "AccellFactor" "0.0015"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ColorKey"                  # <i>
        #Option     "CacheLines"                # <i>
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DRI"                       # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoDDC"                     # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShowCache"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "XvMCSurfaces"              # <i>
        #Option     "PageFlip"                  # [<bool>]
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "i810"
        VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
        BoardName   "Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller"
        BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth 24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     1
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     4
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     8
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     15
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection
I am using the huge26.s kernel from the Slackware CD. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
 
Old 02-24-2007, 07:30 AM   #2
masonm
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Did you patch your kernel with the synaptics patch? That helped me. Even with the X11 driver installed I didn't have full features because the kernel wasn't properly recognizing the touchpad. Once I patched and recompiled the kernel it worked perfectly.

http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/patches/touchpad/
 
Old 02-25-2007, 04:11 AM   #3
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Quote:
Originally Posted by masonm
Did you patch your kernel with the synaptics patch? That helped me. Even with the X11 driver installed I didn't have full features because the kernel wasn't properly recognizing the touchpad. Once I patched and recompiled the kernel it worked perfectly.

http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/patches/touchpad/
Thank you for the reply. I did not patch and recompile the kernel. Unfortunately I do not have time to play around with it right now. I will hopefully have time next weekend to figure out how to compile a Linux kernel from source. I will post back as soon as I try that. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
 
  


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