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Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> Can anybody point me to a hint on how to configure synaptics touchapad |
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> sensitivity? |
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> The touchpad on my Thinkpad T500 is so sensitive you don't even have |
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> to touch it. Merely bringing a thumb or finger within 1/8 - 1/4 inch |
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> will cause the cursor to twitch spasmodically for a second and then |
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> jump to the lower left corner of the screen. Once you have a finger |
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> on the touchpad, it seems to work OK. |
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> I've figured out how to disable it temporarily using the "xinput" |
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> command, but I would like to actually get it working right. |
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> All the docs I can find seem to assume two things: |
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> 1) an xorg.conf file |
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> 2) the xf86-input-synpatics driver |
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> I'm using neither. |
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> I decided finally to give in and let Xorg use HAL like it wants to by |
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> default when you do a Gentoo install. |
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> What a huge mistake. I really, really hate HAL. With xorg.conf, all |
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> the settings were in one file, in an easy to read, easy to edit |
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> format. Now with HAL, they're scattered over several files. And to |
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> make sure you can't edit or read them, they're in XML. I have no idea |
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> what "problem" HAL is supposed to be solving, but it apprently wasn't |
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> a problem I ever had -- AFAICT HAL is nothing but pain. |
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You must be fairly new here. I realized the same thing a while back and |
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trust me, I posted it here so everyone else would know that it isn't |
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easy to work with. It either works out of the box or you are in a huge |
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mess. |
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Before you go to great pains to get this working, you do know that hal |
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is checking out right? Even the person who wrote it realized the mess |
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it was and it is dying pretty soon. I think it is policykit or polkit |
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or something to that effect. If you want to start using that instead, |
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it may save you some headaches later on when it is no longer a option. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |