synaptics driver not loaded

[Johan Lozano]

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 15:28 -0700, Josh Coffman wrote:
> 
> --- Johan Lozano <johan.lozano at tiscali.be> wrote:
> > 
> > i realise now that i am on the road and  have not
> > always place for a
> > mouse that i have the same problem as you have. did
> > you solved yours and
> > if so what did you do? i followed this thread and
> > tried out all the
> > suggestions w/o success. i can tell that maybe 1 of
> > the 10 times my
> > touchpad works but most of the time it's dead. 
> > 
> > Johan Lozano
> > MicroBit, Duffel
> > E-mail : johan.lozano at tiscali.be
> > 
> > GPG key : 9A9FBFE1
> 
> Looks similar to a message I used to get on my hp
> z5000 laptop. Here's what I did...
> 
> > echo -n "reconnect" >
> /sys/bus/serio/devices/serio3/drvctl
this makes the difference.
in an earlier post i tried the same command on serio1 w/o success
> 
> this comes from a linuxr3000 laptop list, so I don't
> understand why, but it got synaptics to see the
> touchpad. then I needed to get scroll working. i took
> the extra step if allow usb mouse and touchpad
> w/scroll simultaneiously:
> 
> [change config similar to:]
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=23667&highlight=touchpad+usb+mouse
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
> 	Identifier     "Default Layout"
> 	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
> 
> 	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> 	InputDevice    "TouchPad" "AlwaysCore"
> 	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 
> 	Identifier  "Mouse0"
> 	Driver      "mouse"
> 	Option	    "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
> 	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> 	Option	    "Buttons" "7"
> 
> 	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
> #	Option	"Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>   Driver  	"synaptics"
>   Identifier  	"TouchPad"
> 
>   Option	"Device"  		"/dev/psaux"
>   Option	"Protocol"		"auto-dev"
> #  Option	"Protocol"		"alps"
> #  Option	"Device"  		"/dev/input/event0"
> 
> #  Option	"Protocol"		"event"
>   Option	"LeftEdge"		"120"
>   Option	"RightEdge"		"830"
>   Option	"TopEdge"		"120"
>   Option	"BottomEdge"		"650"
> 
>   Option	"FingerLow"		"14"
>   Option	"FingerHigh"		"15"
>   Option	"MaxTapTime"		"260"
>   Option	"MaxTapMove"		"100"
>   Option	"EmulateMidButtonTime"	"75"
> 
>   Option	"VertScrollDelta"	"20"
>   Option	"HorizScrollDelta"	"20"
>   Option	"MinSpeed"		"0.3"
>   Option	"MaxSpeed"		"0.5"
>   Option	"AccelFactor"		"
> 0.01"
>   Option	"EdgeMotionMinSpeed"	"15"
>   Option	"EdgeMotionMaxSpeed"	"15"
>   Option	"UpDownScrolling"	"1"
>   Option	"CircularScrolling"	"1"
> 
>   Option	"CircScrollDelta"	"0.1"
>   Option	"CircScrollTrigger"	"2"
>   Option	"SHMConfig"		"on"
> EndSection
> 
> hope this helps
> -j
> 
> 
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thanks a lot


Johan Lozano
MicroBit, Duffel
E-mail : johan.lozano at tiscali.be

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