Touchpad on Dell
William Burrows
wburrows at redhat.com
Thu May 22 22:10:34 UTC 2008
The touchpad is still useless. Did I do it correctly? Is there anything I should remove? Thanks
#Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "TouchPad" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "synaptics"
Identifier "TouchPad"
Option "SendCoreEvents"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "2"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Debasish Das wrote:
> Hi William,
> Please add the following line in ServerLayout section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> InputDevice "TouchPad" "CorePointer"
>
> Then add the following lines out of ServerLayout section in the same file.
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Driver "synaptics"
> Identifier "TouchPad"
> Option "SendCoreEvents"
> Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
> Option "SHMConfig" "on"
> Option "TapButton1" "1"
> Option "TapButton2" "2"
> EndSection
>
> Now just restart the X. I think you will be able to use touch pad then.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Debasish
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:50 PM, William Burrows <wburrows at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Touchpad is not working in F9. I installed F9 on a new Dell XPS m1530 and
>> no touchpad driver appeared in xorg.conf, so I went ahead and added the
>> synaptics driver from the synaptics INSTALL docs. I tried the default
>> settings (all 20 lines), then adjusted those 20 lines per research, then
>> lastly tried basic synaptics settings that appear to work in most other
>> user's xorg (indentifier/driver).
>>
>> I then tried settings based upon another Dell XPS user's settings that work.
>> This is a high-end gaming XPS, but you would think the touchpad settings
>> would be similar. No synaptics drivers are being used, but a more detailed
>> mouse driver. Still no touchpad.
>>
>> HELP!
>>
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