Synaptics touchpad not working properly with hal

ihtruelsen

I am installing on an Acer Aspire One netbook. From all that I have researched about it, it has a Synaptics touchpad. I am trying to set that up with hal and evdev, but am not having a lot of luck.

Here is the hal fdi that I have for the touchpad:

rufnut · Apprentice Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 252

Hi, I have an AA1 AOA150

vaxbrat · l33t Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 731 Location: DC Burbs

Look at my writeup on the gentoo wiki for the Dell Vostro. It also has a synaptics

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Dell_Vostro_A90

ihtruelsen · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:12 pm Post subject:

Okay, so I gave up on hal. It just didn't seem to be working for me. Using the setup in xorg.conf I have tap to click and edge scrolling back and the mouse is working at a sane speed. I do not, however, seem to be able to get two finger scrolling working.

Does anyone know of a way to check whether the touchpad has the capability to do two finger tapping/scrolling? Is there a program or proc listing that can show what the capabilities of the touchpad are?

vaxbrat · l33t Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 731 Location: DC Burbs

look at that ubuntu reference I put in my wiki entry

ihtruelsen · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:38 pm Post subject:

I went through the ubuntu article, but I didn't see anything in there that detailed how to probe or otherwise check the touchpad hardware for its capabilities. Synclient will show the possible settings and what they are set to, but I don't think that shows capabilities. For example, I have set the two finger scrolling and it shows it as active in synclient, but it does not actually work. I think that the touchpad should be capable of it, as it was supposed to be able to do it in XP, but it just does not want to work.

Zeerak · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:01 pm Post subject:

Why not just try setting the option in your xorg.conf file, and backup the working file. The worst case scenario is your touchpad not working for the number of sessions between replacing the new config with the old config.

Here's the relevant bits of my xorg.conf, set up to have double finger tapping for right clicks, three finger taps for middle click, and single finger tap for left click. The rest of it pretty much says itself. :-)

Also for more options consult the manual page.

ihtruelsen · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:53 am Post subject:

I've tried that, but for completeness, I copied you mouse section to my xorg.conf and restarted x. According to synclient, two finger scrolling and multifinger tapping are all enabled:

zlomek · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Nov 2009 Posts: 123

everything if you using gnome.
System->Preferences->Mouse then set tap
[solved]?

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ihtruelsen · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 3:43 pm Post subject:

I am not a gnome user, but according to synclient, all of the features that I want are already turned on. They just don't work.

zlomek · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Nov 2009 Posts: 123

i had the same problem
one program override your fdi.
I have the same fdi as your where
before
synclient -l :