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On Thursday 17 January 2008, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: |
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> Am Mittwoch 16 Januar 2008 18:13:22 schrieb Alan McKinnon: |
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> > Hi all, |
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> > I haven't seen this one before. My touchpad mouse works normally, |
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> > until I lift my finger and place it somewhere else. Normally, the |
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> > pointer would stay where it is and only move when my finger moves. |
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> > What happens now is my I touch the pad, the pointer moves to a |
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> > point on the screen corresponding to where I touch the pad. Touch |
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> > pad on left edge, pointer moves to left edge of screen, then reacts |
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> > normally to finger moving again. The "stick mouse" works fine. |
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> > I get the same result without an xorg.conf, just letting xorg |
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> > figure stuff out for itself. |
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> Stuff is figured out itself now anyway. :-S |
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> You have hal-0.5.10 installed and compiled xorg-server with hal. Now |
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> hal will scan the attached devices and hotplug available mice. The |
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> touchpad is recognized as a mouse and the "evdev" driver is loaded |
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> with uses absolute mode since the device emits absolute coordinates. |
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> These devices are even added when you already have a mouse input |
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> device in the xorg.conf, thus giving you a lot of mice that use the |
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> same data (some guys report double clicks on single clicks, keymaps |
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> changed, the touchpad does not work right anymore). |
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> Put |
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> Option "AutoAddDevices" "false" |
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Excellent! thanks. That fixed the problem, and also solved erratic |
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double-click behaviour I was getting in Konqueror as well |
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alan |
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> in the Section Serverflags and xorg will stop to hotplug mice. |
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> Or add a custom policy file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ to add the |
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> touchpad with the synaptics driver instead of evdev. |
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> Sascha |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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