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Sivar
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 Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 8:34 am Post subject: Synaptics touchpad |
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Does anybody have the Synaptics Touchpad driver working?
I've followed the installation instructions that came with the driver (though the ebuild did most of the work for me), and X11 4.3.99.902 dies as soon as it loads the driver.
X's log isn't terribly informative, it just states:
| Code: | (II) Initializing built-in extention (...lots of extentions loaded...)
(II) Initializing built-in extention RANR
(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.12.4
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting |
I've tried adding "psmouse.proto=imps" to my boot string as some threads have recommended.
Does this driver simply not work with AMD64, or am I doing something wrong?
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P.Wray
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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emerge synaptics 0.13.3 it's currently masked for amd64, but it works for me  |
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nigelhannam
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| Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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Nice one!
I hadn't tried the synaptics driver for a while as it was crashing X on startup.
Works fine with 0.13.3.
(Acer Aspire 1502LMi) |
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dangertools
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 11:25 am Post subject: |
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works really fine, if acer or broadcom would build drivers for the BCM94306 wireless chip i would switch completely to 64bit, but it is good to see that this works now
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vyzivus
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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I was using 0.13.3 without any problems. When I upgraded kernel to 2.6.9-gentoo-r1, X suddenly ignored the keyboard. I upgraded to synaptics-0.13.5 but the problem persisted. My xorg.conf:
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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "usbMouse" "CorePointer"
#InputDevice "TouchPad" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "mainKbd" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "kbd"
Load "extmod"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "glx"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
# Load "xtt"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "mainKbd"
Driver "kbd"
#Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "usbMouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "TouchPad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0"
Option "Protocol" "event"
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"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Acer"
ModelName "Generic LCD"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "DRI" "off"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1400x1050" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
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When I uncomment the TouchPad line in server layout then the keyboard is frozen - even no ctrl+alt+backspace nor ctrl+alt+del. The problem persisted even when I booted to older kernel. However, the text actually IS displayed (when I somehow turn X off) on Ctrl+F7 screen.
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nigelhannam
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| Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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vyzivus:
I found that when moving to kernel 2.6.9 the synaptics pad and keyboard (previously on /dev/input/event0 and /dev/input/event1) swapped over.
This caused symtoms similar to what you are describing.
In the synaptics InputDevice section, try changing the Device to "/dev/input/event1".
An alternative (and probabl better) fix is to remove the Device line altogether and change the Protocol to "auto-dev". With these settings, the synaptics driver seems to determine the correct device itself. |
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vyzivus
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| Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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thanks very much, your tip really helped me with that "auto-dev"!
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