T42 emulate 3 buttons doesn't work

dive · 10-29-2008, 07:50 AM

Can't get any joy with this, nor trackpoint scrolling. Found a few things on google but nothing works. Xev doesn't show any input when I press the middle blue button at all (or I wouldn't need emulation). Some sites mention using the synaptics driver but it doesn't come with standard X11 slackware packages.

Code:

 Section "InputDevice"
     Identifier  "Mouse0"
     Driver      "mouse"
     Option      "Protocol" "auto"
     Option      "Emulate3Buttons"   "true"
     Option      "EmulateWheel"  "True"
     Option      "EmulateWheelButton"    "2"
     Option      "SendCoreEvents" "true"
     Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
     Option      "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
 EndSection

*Edit: I've discovered that emulate3buttons is working if I press the buttons fast enough. I've tried adding EmulateWheelTimeout option but it seems to be ignored.

w1k0 · 10-29-2008, 09:22 AM

In my T41 works such configuration:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"    "Auto"
    Option "Device"      "/dev/input/mice"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
    Option "EmulateWheel" "on"
    Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
    Option "ZAxisMapping"   "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

rworkman · 10-29-2008, 09:22 AM

I think you'll have better luck with the xf86-input-synaptics module. I've got a package on my site (and sources if you'd prefer to build it yourself - it's a fast compile). Just be sure to read the docs on it, but once it's set up, it's pretty darn sweet :-)

w1k0 · 10-29-2008, 09:44 AM

I just tested it and it works without that option too:

Quote:

Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"

With the above configuration I can paste text in X Window using alternatively middle button (2) as well as third button emulation (buttons 1 and 3).

By the way: I don't use TouchPad but TrackPoint only. TouchPad is disabled in my BIOS. TrackPoint is more precise than TouchPad. For example: in GIMP I can point areas with TrackPoint exact to 1 pixel. Standard layout of the keyboard and TrackPoint were two reasons for which I bought ThinkPad.

w1k0 · 10-29-2008, 09:48 AM

If you don't use TrackPoint try to disable it in BIOS.

As I said I use TrackPoint. I was forced to disable TouchPad because when it was enabled I couldn't scroll text with TrackPoint.

dive · 10-29-2008, 01:46 PM

Robby I'm trying your synaptics driver and the emulation works much better now. Unfortunately I can't seem to get tap-to-click to work or my usb mouse.

For the tap problem I've tried various settings with synclient but from what I've read so far the default settings should work.

I've tried switching touchpad off with synclient to try to get the usb mouse to work but that's also not working.

Code:

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


Section "InputDevice"
     Identifier  "Mouse0"
     Driver      "synaptics"
     Option      "SHMConfig" "on"
     Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
     Option      "MaxTapTime" "180"
     Option      "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"
     Option      "Emulate3Buttons"   "true"
     Option      "EmulateWheel"  "True"
     Option      "EmulateWheelTimeout"   "1000"
     Option      "EmulateWheelButton"    "2"
     Option      "SendCoreEvents" 
     Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
     Option      "HorizEdgeScroll" "1"
 EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
     Identifier  "USBMouse"
     Driver      "mouse"
     Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
     Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1"
     Option      "Emulate3Buttons"   "False"
     Option      "SendCoreEvents" 
     Option      "CorePointer"   "true"
 EndSection

rworkman · 10-29-2008, 03:10 PM

I'm not sure about the tap-to-click (it works here), but you might find some clues about making two mice work at http://rlworkman.net/conf/misc/xorg.conf -- see the "Added - RW" lines for what I changed to make synaptics work.

Also note that in that particular config, I've got the touchpad completely disabled, so don't blindly copy it :-)

dive · 10-29-2008, 05:59 PM

Nope still no joy. Pity because edge scrolling is really nice.

T3slider · 10-29-2008, 09:13 PM

See this thread -- I think it may solve your problem. In short: you must use the kernel defaults for the psmouse module and NOT proto=imps (which is the default option in Slackware -- so you must change it manually to get it working).

dive · 10-30-2008, 01:10 AM

The slackware package with tap-to-click enabled is no longer on the site in that thread. I have changed psmouse options to not have proto=imps but still no joy.

Basicially synaptics driver works on its own, or usb mouse works on its own, but I cannot get both to work at same time. I can still get mouse output if I 'cat /dev/input/mice' when I move the mouse but for some reason X isn't seeing it. Same with evdev driver.

Using mouse driver for touchpad enables touchpad, trackpoint and mouse at same time so it looks like I will have to stick with that.

bl0tt0 · 10-30-2008, 11:56 AM

dive, I have the same computer, and it took some searching to get everything working right. The relevant portion of my xorg.conf goes like so:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option          "EmulateWheel"          "on"
        Option          "EmulateWheelTimeout"   "200"
        Option          "EmulateWheelButton"    "2"
        Option          "YAxisMapping"          "4 5"
        Option          "XAxisMapping"          "6 7"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
        Option          "MaxTapTime"            "0"
        Option          "SHMConfig"             "off"
EndSection

It should be noted that I followed the guidelines for configuring the trackpoint at http://slackwiki.org/ThinkPad_X61s, and I installed the synaptics driver by using the script at slackbuilds.org. The setup I've got right now works fine whether I'm using an external usb mouse or not. Give it a try and see if this helps. Also, note that my synaptics driver is configured not to recieve a tap-to-click event on the trackpad. If you want that feature, comment out the "MaxTapTime" line.

dive · 10-30-2008, 01:35 PM

Thanks bl0tt0 that gets them both working together. The only thing that doesn't seem to work is tap-to-click.

I'm using

Option "MaxTapTime" "180"

which I think is the default. I have read while googling that the latest versions of synaptics have tap-to-click written out so I will need to look at this.

Can you just confirm if turning tap-to-click on in works on your laptop and which version synaptics you have?

Cheers

*Edit: tap-to-click is now working after playing with SingleTapTimeout settings. Just need to tune it. Thanks for you help bl0tt0

bl0tt0 · 10-30-2008, 02:43 PM

I'm using the old 0.14.6 synaptics driver. Apparently the new one requires some configuration to enable tap-to-click. There was some discussion of this on the forum here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ight=synaptics