One thing that comes up is a matter of pointing to the correct device for the touchpad.
When I was configuring X, I was able to use /dev/input/mice as the device for all my pointing devices. I think X defaults to /dev/mouse0 or something similar. To point to a specific device I had to change that to /dev/input/mouse0. So maybe KDE thinks your touchpad is at a device that isn't currently being used? If so, then you'll need to tell KDE which device is your touchpad... don't know if there's a nice GUI for this, or if you'll have to find a config file somewhere.... HTH Shawn On Sunday 04 September 2005 10:53, Jon wrote: > Thanks for the tip Shawn. This is my first foray into my X config so > there's a lot of stuff in there that I don't understand. > > I've managed to get to the point where if I boot with the USB mouse plugged > in, then both the mouse and the touchpad work complete with the annoying > tapping (just as before). > > If I boot without the USB mouse plugged in, the the touchpad works without > tapping! Yay! > > It's still a little weird because even when there's no USB mouse plugged in > and I am running completely off the touchpad, none of KDE's Touchpad > controls work in the Control Centre but the mouse options do. This means I > can control the acceleration and precision and such, but I have no access > to the 'finer' controls of the touchpad like scrolling and the like. Right > now I really don't care though - as long as the stupid tapping is gone I'm > happy. > > At the end of the day, the only thing I ended up doing was changing one of > the two lines from my XF86Config-4 file that you quoted below. Now instead > of them both reading CorePointer, they read: > > InputDevice "USB Mouse" "AlwaysCore" > InputDevice "Synaptics Mouse" "CorePointer" > > I'll be the first to admit that I don't know the difference and perhaps > there's more tweaking I can do, but stumbled across the AlwaysCore thing > somewhere in my travels trying to sort this out. > > So..pretty happy. I'd like to have full touchpad support, but I can at > least live with this. > > Anyone want to comment on other ways I might get full functionality out of > this thing? > > Thanks! > > Jon > > On September 4, 2005 03:32 am, Shawn wrote: > > Domain match. > > Remove domain from Allow list --> > > > > https://www.vqme.com/pk/eh?op=remove_domain&Domain=clug.ca&VU=HqIXF6rk+Pp > >DI 0Rq/fWFgg Block domain --> > > > > https://www.vqme.com/pk/eh?op=block_domain&Domain=clug.ca&VU=HqIXF6rk+PpD > >I0 Rq/fWFgg > > > > On Saturday 03 September 2005 22:47, Jon wrote: > > > InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer" > > > InputDevice "ALPS Touchpad" "Core Pointer" > > > > The above two lines in your X Config seem to indicate you're using the > > same drive for both the mouse and the touchpad. Perhaps you can use a > > different driver for the touchpad? Or maybe you can add an option to the > > "ALPS Touchpad" input device section? If so, then there may be other > > options you can "tweak" in the config... > > > > for example, I have the following in my config: > > > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Mouse0" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option "Protocol" "Auto" > > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0" > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > EndSection > > > > Because I have an actual 3 button mouse, I don't need to emulate it, so > > that option was removed. The ZAxisMapping was needed so the scroll would > > work properly. Maybe there's an appropriate "Option" for the tap (maybe > > when you're using a different driver)? > > > > (Take the above with a grain of salt... I don't consider myself an expert > > with X configs....) > > > > Shawn > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
