On Sunday 19 April 2009 12:11:03 Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > Hi, > > After recently dist-upgrading a vaio and a dell laptop I noticed their > touchpad no longer mouse-click when tapped and scrolls when dragging on > the edges. Have the defaults changed? > > I have a minimal xorg.conf on both machines and the touchpad driver > seems to be loaded: > > Dell XPS: > > (II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: x-axis range 1472 - 5472 > (II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: y-axis range 1408 - 4448 > (II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: pressure range 0 - 255 > (II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: finger width range 0 - 0 > (II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: buttons: left right middle double > triple > (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad touchpad found > (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: always reports core events > (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" > (type: TOUCHPAD) (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) keeping > acceleration scheme 1 (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) filter chain > progression: 2.00 (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) filter stage 0: > 20.00 ms (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) set acceleration profile > 0 (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad touchpad found > > Vaio FW21Z: > > (II) config/hal: Adding input device AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint > (**) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: always reports core events > (**) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Device: "/dev/input/event6" > (II) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Found 3 mouse buttons > (II) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Found x and y relative axes > (II) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Found x and y absolute axes > (II) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Found absolute touchpad > (II) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: Configuring as touchpad > (**) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 > (**) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: EmulateWheelButton: 4, > EmulateWheelInertia: > 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device > "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" (type: TOUCHPAD) (**) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: > (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1 (**) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: > (accel) filter chain progression: 2.00 (**) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: > (accel) filter stage 0: 20.00 ms > (**) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: (accel) set acceleration profile 0 > > Should the touchpad behaviour be fully configured in the xorg.conf? > > Thanks,
Hi, you might be interested in the upstream bug: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21214 Basically, the right edge of Alps touchpads is not correctly autodetected, so you need a hal rule to fix it and make vertical scrolling work. Stefano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
