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On Thursday 21 August 2008, Andrew Sackville-West
<andrew@farwestbilliards.com> was heard to say:
> just put the missing stuff back into xorg.conf, as a start. X still
> respects those settings, so far as I know, it just doesn't *need*
> them anymore.

I tried that, no joy. I tried copying in the "Synaptics" device, just
like in the previous xorg.conf, and also as settings inside
the "configured mouse". Neither made any difference.

I also discovered that while KDE will let me change the magnitude of
the scroll events, it will not allow me to turn them off. I cannot
set "scroll" to "0", only "1" or more.

On Thursday 21 August 2008,
"Felipe Gallois" <felipe@gallois.com.br> was heard to say:
> it seems that the synaptics drivers are not installed by default in
> laptops anymore

Yet this is what is in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.6 (1406)
(--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint auto-dev sets device
to /dev/input/event8
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event8"
(--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint touchpad found
(**) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: always reports core events
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"
(type: MOUSE)
(--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint auto-dev sets device
to /dev/input/event8
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event8"
(--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint touchpad found

so it seems that it is in fact getting loaded. The old configuration
is just being ignored.

Curt-


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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 04:21:36PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote:
>
> On Thursday 21 August 2008, Andrew Sackville-West
> <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> was heard to say:
> > just put the missing stuff back into xorg.conf, as a start. X still
> > respects those settings, so far as I know, it just doesn't *need*
> > them anymore.
>
> I tried that, no joy. I tried copying in the "Synaptics" device, just
> like in the previous xorg.conf, and also as settings inside
> the "configured mouse". Neither made any difference.
>
> I also discovered that while KDE will let me change the magnitude of
> the scroll events, it will not allow me to turn them off. I cannot
> set "scroll" to "0", only "1" or more.
>
> On Thursday 21 August 2008,
> "Felipe Gallois" <felipe@gallois.com.br> was heard to say:
> > it seems that the synaptics drivers are not installed by default in
> > laptops anymore
>
> Yet this is what is in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
>
> (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.6 (1406)
> (--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint auto-dev sets device
> to /dev/input/event8
> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event8"
> (--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint touchpad found
> (**) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: always reports core events
> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"
> (type: MOUSE)
> (--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint auto-dev sets device
> to /dev/input/event8
> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event8"
> (--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint touchpad found
>
> so it seems that it is in fact getting loaded. The old configuration
> is just being ignored.
>

Have you set up the "ServerLayout" Section in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf?
I'm not shure if it will help, but I think, as I configured some other
things with the touchpad, it just worked after doing this.

With the best greetings

Richard


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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Curt Howland <Howland@priss.com> wrote:
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> Hi. Up to date Sid.
>
> Back before the recent changes in X, I had put this in my xorg.conf:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
> Driver "synaptics"
> Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
> Option "VertEdgeScroll" "false"
> Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "false"
> EndSection
>
> and the very annoying "scroll" areas were gloriously gone.
>
> But now, after the change in X where most of the specific
> configuration options are autodetected, I'm back to having "scroll"
> areas.
>
> So I put the following into the only place available in the new
> xorg.conf
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "VertEdgeScroll" "false"
> Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "false"
> EndSection
>
> but the annoying "scroll" remains.
>
> Suggestions?

Curt, did you get this fixed? If not, does adding the line:

Option "TouchpadOff" "1"

switch off your touchpad completely?

Jaime


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