Talk:Synaptics Touchpad

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[edit] Thanks - worked for a Dell Inspiron 8500

On a Dell Inspiron 8500, which comes with an AlpsPS/2 GlidePoint, this works beautifully. The xorg.conf file must list

  Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2"

- oli

[edit] CircScrollTrigger

You may be interested in the following option:

CircScrollTrigger       Int    Trigger region on the touchpad to start circular scrolling
                               0=All Edges, 1=Top Edge, 2=Top Right Corner, 3=Right Edge,
                               4=Bottom Right Corner, 5=Bottom Edge, 6=Bottom Left Corner,
                               7=Left Edge, 8=Top Left Corner

...which allows you to tell it where circular scrolling should start. I have it set to right edge (3), so I usually just stay in the upper left region when clicking/dragging, and use the bottom/right edges for scrolling.

- chris

[edit] Thanks

I finally got both the Touchpad's scroll area and my wireless USB mouse happily playing together with all features!!

muchos gracias.

p.s. maybe someone can explain to me why there is a syndaemon init script? it wont run as root cause it cant grab the display and daemons cant be started by users so this serves no purpose that i can see. putting a bash script that calls syndaemon in ~/.kde/Autostart/ worked fine for me. ;-)

[edit] Some Modifications

I had some input to make, so I went ahead and edited the page. I hope no-one minds too much...

I also figured I'd clean up a little while I was at it.

- eu/NEKE 15:01:39, 2005-08-24 (GMT)

[edit] Alps Code

I'm not sure whether this is intentional, but in the Alps sample code, the device is listed as mouse0, not mouse1 like the Synaptics sample or the printout.

Thanks,

Darwin

[edit] About the web browser fix...

thanks for the firefox fix, that's been bothering me for a while. BUT does anyone know a similar fix for opera? I tried the same thing but opera's configuration is very different. If anyone could put a fix for opera that would be great! --Well Caffeinated

[edit] /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Should this not include a line in the "Modules" section to load the synaptics driver? Something along the lines of...

  ...
  Load  "synaptics"
  ...