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maitarco

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Registered: 2011-11-14

Posts: 5

[SOLVED]touchpad with multitouch

hello to everybody.
i tried to configure my touchpad to use with multitouch, but i am not able to do on my own
i just created a file called synaptics.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
did like this:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier      "Touchpad"                      # required
        MatchIsTouchpad "yes"                           # required
        Driver          "synaptics"                     # required

    option        "LeftEdge"            "1600"
    option        "RightEdge"            "5000" 
    option        "TopEdge"            "1600" 
    option        "BottomEdge"             "4200" 

    option        "FingerLow"            "24" 
    option        "FingerHigh"            "28" 
    option        "FingerPress"            "255" 

    option        "MaxTapTime"            "180" 
    option        "MaxTapMove"            "220" 
    option        "MaxDoubleTapTime"        "180"

    option         "VertTwoFingerScroll"      "1"     # multitouch
    option         "HorizTwoFingerScroll"     "1"     # multitouch

    option        "SingleTapTimeout"        "180" 
    option        "ClickTime"            "180" 
    option        "FastTaps"            "1" 
      
    option        "EmulateMidButtonTime"        "180" 
        option          "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ"         "35"
        option          "EmulateTwoFingerMinW"      "8"

    option        "VerteScrollDelta"        "100"
    option        "HorizScrollDelta"        "100"
    option        "VertEdgeScroll"        "1" 
    option        "HorizEdgeScroll"        "1"

    option        "CornerCoasting"        "0" 
    option        "VertTwoFingerScroll"        "0"
    option        "HorizTwoFingerScroll"        "0" 

    option        "MinSpeed"            "0.4" 
    option        "MaxSpeed"            "0.7" 
    option        "AccelFactor"            "0.00995" 

    option        "EdgeMotionMinZ"        "30" 
    option        "EdgeMotionMaxZ"        "160" 
    option        "EdgeMotionMinSpeed"        "1" 
    option        "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed"        "400" 
    option        "EdgeMotionUseAlways"        "0" 

    option        "UpDownScrolling"        "1" 
    option        "LeftRightScrolling"        "1" 
    option        "UpDownScrollRepeat"        "1" 
    option        "LeftRightScrollRepeat"        "1" 
    option        "ScrollButtonRepeat"        "100" 

    option        "TouchpadOff"            "0" 
    option        "GuestMouseOff"            "0" 
    option        "LockedDrags"            "0" 
    option        "LockedDragTimeout"        "5000" 

    option        "RTCornerButton"        "0" 
    option        "RBCornerButton"        "0" 
    option        "LTCornerButton"        "0" 
    option        "CornerButton"            "0" 

    option        "TapButton1"            "1" 
    option        "TapButton2"            "2" 
    option        "TapButton3"            "3" 

    option        "ClickFinger1"            "1" 
    option        "ClickFinger2"            "2" 
    option        "ClickFinger3"            "0" 

    option        "CircularScrolling"        "0" 
    option        "CircScrollTrigger"        "0"     
    option        "CircScrollDelta"        "0" 

    option          "TapButton1"            "1"
    Option          "TapButton2"            "2"    # multitouch
    option          "TapButton3"            "3"    # multitouch

    option        "PalmDetect"            "0" 
    option        "PalmMinWidth"            "10" 
    option        "PalmMinZ"            "200" 

    option        "CoastingSpeed"            "0" 
    option        "PressureMotionMinZ"        "30" 
    option        "PressureMotionMaxZ"        "160" 
    option        "PressureMotionMinFactor"    "1" 
    option        "PressureMotionMaxFactor"    "1" 

    option        "GrabEventDevice"        "1" 
    option        "AreaLeftEdge"            "0" 
     option        "AreaRightEdge"            "0" 
    option        "AreaTopEdge"            "0" 
    option        "AreaBottomEdge"        "0" 
    option        "JumpyCursorThreshold"        "0"
EndSection

dmesg | grep -i touchpad didn't give anything,
and "dmesg | grep -i mouse" gave me this:

[    1.688210] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[    5.782470] input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input6

any help is welcome

Last edited by maitarco (2011-11-21 09:07:26)

maitarco

New Member

Registered: 2011-11-14

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED]touchpad with multitouch

solved installing kernel 2.6.39 from backports and psmouse-elantech-dkms from here: http://packages.kirya.net/debian/pool/m … -1_all.deb