On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 23:30 -0500, Default User wrote:
> My laptop has an Alps touchpad (not Synaptics). Running any FOSS system,
> it was too slow. Moving from top to bottom or side to side of the
> touchpad only moved the cursor about 1/2 to 2/3 the height or width of
> the screen. So I was using a mouse (on a laptop?) instead. What the
> hell, it worked.
>
> Today, running Ubuntu 7.04, I finally figured out a quick fix for the
> touchpad. All I had to do was, as root, add one line to the
> file /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
>
> Option "AccelFactor" "0.5"
>
> (BACK UP THE FILE FIRST, OF COURSE!)
> Then I rebooted (just logging out of the X session and logging back in
> without rebooting did not work). BTW, the acceleration factor of 0.5 was
> chosen at randon, it just happened to work. You may need to use a
> different value.
>
> It works! For now anyway. And I have freed up a usb port as well. But it
> will take some getting used to using a touchpad rather than a mouse.
>
> Hope this helps someone else.
>
>
>
>
The little details mean so much. Should have stated the first time that
the line:
Option "AccelFactor" "0.5"
Was added as the last line to the Synaptics Touchpad section of the
file /etc/X11/xorg.conf, like this:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.5"
EndSection
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