Some of you Synaptics touchpad users might be interested to know that there is a tool available in Mandrake 10.1 to set various properties of the touchpad.
You can get source here:
ftp://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mandrakelinux.com/official/10.1/SRPMS/contrib/qsynaptics-0.21-1mdk.src.rpm
I have not built it or tested it yet.
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 07:59:03AM -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
Some of you Synaptics touchpad users might be interested to know that there is a tool available in Mandrake 10.1 to set various properties of the touchpad.
Only if the configuration has SHM enabled - which we don't by default.
I'll be looking at configurability for synaptics/tablets shortly.
Paul
Thanks for the quick reply. What is SHM ?
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 10:32 -0500, Paul Nasrat wrote:
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 07:59:03AM -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
Some of you Synaptics touchpad users might be interested to know that there is a tool available in Mandrake 10.1 to set various properties of the touchpad.
Only if the configuration has SHM enabled - which we don't by default.
I'll be looking at configurability for synaptics/tablets shortly.
Paul
BTW: I'd love to run symdaemon. I think that is a great addition to the driver.
I'd also love to run both the touchpad and a USB mouse at the same time. I like using the touchpad for quick, little mouse tasks, without taking my hands from the keyboard. I like using the USB mouse for bigger things.
OPEN SOURCE ROCKS !
Thanks.
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 10:32 -0500, Paul Nasrat wrote:
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 07:59:03AM -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
Some of you Synaptics touchpad users might be interested to know that there is a tool available in Mandrake 10.1 to set various properties of the touchpad.
Only if the configuration has SHM enabled - which we don't by default.
I'll be looking at configurability for synaptics/tablets shortly.
Paul
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 07:41, Kim Lux wrote:
I'd also love to run both the touchpad and a USB mouse at the same time. I like using the touchpad for quick, little mouse tasks, without taking my hands from the keyboard. I like using the USB mouse for bigger things.
I agree - and this just works for me. If you plug in a USB mouse, what happens? On my notebook with a Synaptics touchpad both the touchpad and the mouse work when I plug in the mouse.
If it doesn't work for you, I'm wondering if the computer's BIOS is doing something "interesting". In that case maybe dmesg output might contain some interesting clues (i.e. perhaps the touchpad actually gets disconnected automatically).
Cheers, Per
Both of mine work too, Per. I was thinking that maybe the newer drivers disabled this functionality. I'm glad to hear they don't.
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 11:20 -0800, Per Bjornsson wrote:
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 07:41, Kim Lux wrote:
I'd also love to run both the touchpad and a USB mouse at the same time. I like using the touchpad for quick, little mouse tasks, without taking my hands from the keyboard. I like using the USB mouse for bigger things.
I agree - and this just works for me. If you plug in a USB mouse, what happens? On my notebook with a Synaptics touchpad both the touchpad and the mouse work when I plug in the mouse.
If it doesn't work for you, I'm wondering if the computer's BIOS is doing something "interesting". In that case maybe dmesg output might contain some interesting clues (i.e. perhaps the touchpad actually gets disconnected automatically).
Cheers, Per
-- Per Bjornsson perbj@stanford.edu Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 08:41:07AM -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
BTW: I'd love to run symdaemon. I think that is a great addition to the driver.
RFE against synaptics in bugzilla.
I'd also love to run both the touchpad and a USB mouse at the same time.
This *should* work. Can you file a bugzilla against system-config-display and then attach (not paste) an uncompressed copy of your xorg.conf.
Paul
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