[UUC] Re: Problems with synaptic touch pad.

[Kenneth Adam Miller]

bump

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Kenneth Adam Miller <
kennethadammiller at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not that I was being rude or anything.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Kenneth Adam Miller <
> kennethadammiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Williams: if you read what I wrote, you would know that I have already
>> went through trying to use GSynaptics. The touchpad apparently isn't using
>> the synaptics driver, although it is a synaptics touchpad. The Vertical
>> scroll works, but it does not behave properly. If you try to scroll upwards,
>> it jumps to the very bottom of the page quite fast. I can scroll down
>> properly, but I can't scroll horizontally.
>>
>> By the way, perhaps this is good information: there isn't a Touchpad Tab
>> in my System->Preferences->Mouse
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Perks Williams <
>> perks.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In ubuntu 10.04 touchpad works without any problem. But by default
>>> only Vertical scroll is enabled.
>>> To enable horizontal scroll goto System->Preferences->Mouse
>>> Touchpad Tab, Check Enable Horizontal Scrolling.
>>>
>>> GSynaptics would help you to do advance configuration for touchpad.
>>>
>>> -A William
>>>
>>> On Aug 19, 10:21 pm, Kenneth Adam Miller <kennethadammil... at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > I've been unable to use scroll for a long time on Ubuntu. I would
>>> really
>>> > like to add this feature, but it is proving to be a much more
>>> complicated
>>> > process that what I thought it should be.
>>> > I've followed instructions athttps://
>>> bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gsynaptics/+bug/132627andhttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad#shmconfig
>>> >
>>> > I added the ability to use the vertical scroll on my touchpad, but
>>> still,
>>> > having trouble. When I scroll down it works, but scrolling up gives
>>> trouble
>>> > (it jumps to the very very bottom of the page). I tried to add the
>>> program
>>> > TouchPad from USC, but it fails to initilize with an error report like
>>> this:
>>> >
>>> > GSynaptics couldn't initialize.
>>> > You have to set 'SHMConfig' 'true' in xorg.conf or XF86Config to use
>>> > GSynaptics
>>> >
>>> > I went through trying to fix that, but I couldn't get it done.  I
>>> really
>>> > don't know where to go.
>>> > I do think I found something significant though: the command "xinput
>>> list"
>>> > gives this:
>>> >
>>> > ⎡ Virtual core pointer                        id=2    [master pointer
>>>  (3)]
>>> > ⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                  id=4    [slave
>>>  pointer
>>> > (2)]
>>> > ⎜   ↳ MLK Wireless Keyboard& Laser Mouse          id=10    [slave
>>>  pointer
>>> > (2)]
>>> > ⎜   ↳ ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse                  id=13    [slave
>>>  pointer
>>> > (2)]
>>> > ⎜   ↳ Macintosh mouse button emulation            id=14    [slave
>>>  pointer
>>> > (2)]
>>> > ⎣ Virtual core keyboard                       id=3    [master keyboard
>>> (2)]
>>> >     ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard                 id=5    [slave
>>>  keyboard
>>> > (3)]
>>> >     ↳ Power Button                                id=6    [slave
>>>  keyboard
>>> > (3)]
>>> >     ↳ Video Bus                                   id=7    [slave
>>>  keyboard
>>> > (3)]
>>> >     ↳ Sleep Button                                id=8    [slave
>>>  keyboard
>>> > (3)]
>>> >     ↳ MLK Wireless Keyboard& Laser Mouse          id=9    [slave
>>>  keyboard
>>> > (3)]
>>> >     ↳ CNF7017                                     id=11    [slave
>>>  keyboard
>>> > (3)]
>>> >     ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard                id=12    [slave
>>>  keyboard
>>> > (3)]
>>> >
>>> > If you look, you can see that it is NOT detecting a synaptics touchpad.
>>>
>>> --
>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
>>> "Ubuntu-User-Community" group.
>>> To post to this group, send email to
>>> ubuntu-user-community at googlegroups.com.
>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
>>> ubuntu-user-community+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com<ubuntu-user-community%2Bunsubscribe at googlegroups.com>
>>> .
>>> For more options, visit this group at
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntu-user-community?hl=en.
>>>
>>>
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-tx/attachments/20100824/aec4b21c/attachment-0001.htm