Trackpad Problem

[macdude425]

Just put Debian Etch on my dad's laptop (using the new GTK based Debian installer - highly recommended), but now, the trackpad works very slowly, i.e. it takes a lot of drags to get from one place on the screen to another. It was not this way in Sarge. I have installed the Synaptics Touchpad driver, reconfigured XOrg, and tried to configure the touchpad using programs such as qsynaptics, but none of them see the driver as installed.

Any ideas?
TIA.

 

[jakec]

Macdude,

try to edit /etc/modules, and include mosedev and psmouse.
That should fix your problem.
the problem was that is the module isn't loaded, the system can mount the device. Your Modules file should look somthing like this

ide-cd
ide-disk
ide-generic
psmouse <------------
mousedev <------------ them two are the two you need.
ieee80211
cpufreq_powersave
ipw2200
8139too

Hope this Helps,

Jake

Source: http://www.gatago.com/linux/debian/laptop/5170051.html

 

[macdude425]

No luck there. Anything else I should try?

 

[jakec]

Macdude,

Sorry for my utter failure eailier, could you post your Xorg.conf file (mouse section) for me to look at please?

It should look somthing like this

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "TrackPad"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "GlidePointPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
# My trackpad only has two buttons. Yours may have three...
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection
[...]
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USBMouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"

May the tech gods be with you,

Jake

Source: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=1735073#post1735073

 

[macdude425]

:bump:
So terribly sorry, I got busy and forgot about this. Here you go:

Section "Files"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
	FontPath	"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
	# path to defoma fonts
	FontPath	"/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load	"i2c"
	Load	"bitmap"
	Load	"ddc"
	Load	"dri"
	Load	"extmod"
	Load	"freetype"
	Load	"glx"
	Load	"int10"
	Load	"type1"
	Load	"vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc104"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"Protocol"		"ExplorerPS/2"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Synaptics Touchpad"
	Driver		"synaptics"
	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
	Option		"Device"		"/dev/psaux"
	Option		"Protocol"		"auto-dev"
	Option		"HorizScrollDelta"	"0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Generic Video Card"
	Driver		"vesa"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Generic Monitor"
	Option		"DPMS"
	HorizSync	28-51
	VertRefresh	43-60
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Device		"Generic Video Card"
	Monitor		"Generic Monitor"
	DefaultDepth	24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		1
		Modes		"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		4
		Modes		"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		8
		Modes		"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		15
		Modes		"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		16
		Modes		"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth		24
		Modes		"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
	Screen		"Default Screen"
	InputDevice	"Generic Keyboard"
	InputDevice	"Configured Mouse"
	InputDevice	"Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Mode	0666
EndSection

 

[jakec]

Macdude,

Yeah copy and paste my Above Code, Configure it where nessicarry

Jake