I need absolute rather than relative position from my touchpad. At Peter Hutterrer's suggestion I installed the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-evdev-touchpad.conf Section "InputClass" Identifier "evdev touchpad" MatchIsTouchpad "on" Driver "evdev" Option "Mode" "absolute" EndSection
which works nicely on my DELL D430. On my DELL E4310, however, the touchpad isn't recognized (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/637911) and I have the same problem as described there, i.e no touchpad visible in /proc/bus/input/devices. The touchpad works in relative mode, having been initialized, I suspect, as a generic mouse. My question is whether I can force the use of the evdev driver to allow the use of absolute axes or whether there is a low-level problem that prevents this. Please reply directly as well as to the list. thanks in advance for any help Peter -- Peter Rayner room 330 School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, 3010, Vic, Australia tel: work: +61 (0)3 8344 9708; fax: +61 (0)3 8344 7761 mobile +61 402 752 379 mail-to: pray...@unimelb.edu.au _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com