[SOLVED] Synaptics & xorg.conf.d

BlueFusion · Guru Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 371

Hey all,

I got myself a new laptop, an ASUS Q501LA which came with Windows 8. Before I even booted it up, I built a stage4 of Gentoo to install

I've had few issues with it, however one really annoying thing that I can not get configured the way I want it is the touchpad.

I am running it with no xorg.conf file and everything works out-of-the-box. The settings on the synaptics touchpad need tweaking since it is far too sensitive and doesn't scroll.

I made an /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d folder and put in a 50-synaptics.conf file in there, but Xorg never loads the file, according to Xorg.0.log. Also, the synaptics driver never gets loaded - Xorg is just using the evdev driver according to the logfile, and based on the failure of the synclient application.

Here is the configuration I am trying to run:

Chiitoo · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 12:07 am Post subject: ><)))°€

Teegrins, BlueFusion!

I'm not entirely sure if this can be of any help, as I haven't played with these particular configurations much, but on a laptop where I have static-dev, I have the following in the xorg.conf to have it use the synaptics driver (instead of the generic mouse driver, which I believe it used otherwise):

BlueFusion · Guru Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 371

Thank you very much for the guidance, Chiitoo!

I did try changing it to InputDevice (and commenting out the Match* lines as they were not compatible).

I can confirm that Xorg is reading the configuration file, as it does give errors when it has invalid syntax, but I am still unable to get Synaptics driver to be loaded instead of evdev.

Here's what I've done so far.

I confirmed that Synaptics support is in the kernel:

BlueFusion · Guru Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 371

Additionally, here's a bit more information:

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

BlueFusion · Guru Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 371

As usual, not long after posting my problem, I find a solution!

As you can see in the last post I made, the kernel was not identifying the touchpad as a touchpad.

It turns out that it is an Elantech touchpad which therefore needed a special PS/2 option set in the kernel. I set that and it works as expected now!

For anyone else who runs into this problem, the kernel setting is:
MOUSE_PS2_ELANTECH
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Chiitoo · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 1:29 am Post subject:

Good to see!

I didn't have much hope for what I was suggesting since it does seem the class should work if auto-detection works (as far as I understand), and that's not the case in my set-up indeed. A poke in the dark, if you will.

While the only other path I could think of would have been to check the logs and kernel, I certainly wasn't sure what you'd need.

So I thank you!

I should remember this next time. ^^
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