Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Xorg upgrade and synaptics driver

[Mansour Al Akeel]

Hello, and sorry for the late reply. 

See my comments


On Wed Apr 15,2009 12:26 pm, Duncan wrote:
> Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alakeel@×××××.com> posted
> 20090413224623.GA20566@××××.lan, excerpted below, on  Mon, 13 Apr 2009
> 19:46:24 -0300:
>
> > Dieter:
> > Thank you, that did the trick.
>
> > On Mon Apr 13,2009 06:54 pm, Dieter Ries wrote:
> >> Mansour Al Akeel schrieb:
> >>
> >> > today I did "emerge --update --newuse --deep world" in order to get
> >> > the latest. However, I had to fight a bit to get x11 working, but
> >> > after many attempts the mouse pad scrolling is still not working.
> >>
> >> I had the very same experience today [and] here's what I noticed:
> >>
> >> First I thought my evdev driven usb mouse section had stolen my
> >> touchpad. But there were no hints to that in Xorg.0.log and removing
> >> mouse0 from xorg.conf didnt change anything.
> >>
> >> Then I used
> >>
> >> synclient -l
> >>
> >> to see the settings of synaptics.
>
> To possibly resolve that last loose end and put this to bed...
>
> Mansour, note that you were using syndaemon, where here he used synclient.
>
> What might have been happening, why it couldn't access the shared memory,
> may have been that another "syndaemon" (either CLI mouse/gpm driver or
> xorg driver) was already running, occupying the shared memory, keeping
> your manually run daemon from accessing it too.  Now that I see him using
> the client and thinking about client/server communication, that sounds
> likely.
>
> Years ago I ran a syntouch, tho it was back in the old proprietary world
> before MS "strongly encouraged" me to defect, but that was one of my
> favorite pointing devices.  Unfortunately, it was on a corded generic
> "ergonomic/wave" keyboard and I've run cordless Logitech "wave" keyboards
> for years now, settling on the decent but separate Cordless Trackman
> Marble (the right-handed one with the ball under the thumb).  But I've
> always wondered why the couldn't integrate a SynTouch into the keyboard
> and be done with it.  At first I thought maybe they used too much power,
> but that can't be it as they're common laptop devices.  Probably just NIH
> and/or the royalties Logitech would have to pay Syntouch are too high.
> But I'd still pay good money for a nice cordless wave keyboard with an
> integrated syntouch.
>
> Anyway, while I don't have one now and thus wasn't as much help as I'd

You helped as much as you. That's what we all do and all it counts.

> have liked, I do like them and have run them before, so I could
> understand and sympathize with your problem.  But I'd never heard of the
> two-finger "Mac way" of scrolling until Dieter's post.  Why on earth they
> made it the default, disabling the normal edge-scroll, I don't know.

I was asking myself the same question. Why would they make this the
defualt. As if we don't have enough frastration to deal with. 
I think they were trying to say "Hey, you do things the MAC way!" 

>
> But you got it working again, and that's a good thing! =:^)
>
> FWIW, as I do like touchpads, there's some chance I'll get another one in
> the future (and in fact I have a touchpad on my netbook, tho I'm not sure
> it's a syntouch and I'm not using it much right now as I'm trying to make
> room on my main machine to run a 32-bit chroot to install a Gentoo image
> too, then transfer it to the netbook).  And as such, there's a fair
> chance I'll end up using this info myself at some point.

I am glade this was informative for you.
Just FYI, I added the following option to get things the way I want by
default (the same old great way):

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Synaptics Touchpad"
    Driver         "synaptics"
    Option         "Protocol" "event"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/event5"
    Option  "SendCoreEvents" "True"
    Option "SHMConfig" "true"
    Option "VertEdgeScroll" "true"
    Option "TapButton1" "1"
EndSection


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