[TriLUG] Synaptics Touch pad issue - resolved

[z]

On Wednesday 10 March 2004 03:38 pm, William R. Gomeringer wrote:

> This worked for me:
>
> http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/
>
> On Wednesday 10 March 2004 01:33 pm, z wrote:
> > I have a Dell Inspiron 5000 with a Synaptics touch pad that moves the
> > mouse cursor around but the "tap to click" functionality does not work. I
> > am running an up to date Gentoo system with a 2.6.3 kernel, XFree
> > 4.3.0-r5 and KDE 3.2.0.
> >
> > Is this an xfree config issue or a kernel driver issue? Any ideas on how
> > to get this to work?
> >
> > z

Perfect! 
To answer my own question, this is both a kernel and a xfree issue. I had to 
recompile my 2.6 kernel to include support for Event Interface. Once that 
compiled, I downloaded and installed the driver from the above link (thanks 
WRG). Finally, I modified my XF86config file as follows:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse1"

    #Driver      "mouse"
    Driver       "synaptics"

    #Option  "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
    Option       "Protocol"     "auto-dev"

    Option       "Device"       "/dev/psaux"
    Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option      "LeftEdge"      "1700"
    Option      "RightEdge"     "5300"
    Option      "TopEdge"       "1700"
    Option      "BottomEdge"    "4200"
    Option      "FingerLow"     "25"
    Option      "FingerHigh"    "30"
    Option      "MaxTapTime"    "180"
    Option      "MaxTapMove"    "220"
    Option      "VertScrollDelta" "100"
    Option      "MinSpeed"      "0.06"
    Option      "MaxSpeed"      "0.12"
    Option      "AccelFactor"   "0.0010"
    Option      "SHMConfig"     "on"
    #Option     "Repeater"      "/dev/ps2mouse"

    Option "Emulate3Buttons"
EndSection

I now have the very cool "tap to click" functionality that I wanted :-) 

Note: Some binary distributions may have this precompiled, such as Mandrake, 
RH, Fedora
-- 
z