Fedora 8 : disable tapping on ALPS touchpad

[udutronik]

Hi all,

I'm a newbie in the linux world, been trying various distros for 6 months and recently switched to Fedora.
I'm really enjoying this distribution and the community that surrounds it and so far, i've been able to make eveything work perfectly on my toshiba satellite laptop.

Everything but... my touchpad! I want to be able to use it but with tapping disabled.
It is viewed as ALPS Glidepoint device in Fedora's devices

I've not been able to make it happen, I tried:
- installing gsynaptics, but it wont start, giving me the message : "GSynaptics couldn't initialize. You have to set 'SHMConfig' 'true' in xorg.conf or XF86Config to use GSynaptics"
- I've looked into /etc/X11/xorg.conf but there is no reference to synaptics touchpad
- i've pasted sample config lines into xorg.conf (posted in these forums), with SHMConfig = true with no luck...

in other distros, all i had to do was edit this xorg.conf... but what about Fedora?

Thanks for your help...

[leigh123linux]

Moved to Laptop

[Bslagowski]

I have literally one minute before I need to leave, so this is going to be hurried. I'll check back later.

It should be:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "SHMConfig" "true"
EndSection

If that doesn't work (it didn't on my laptop) erase the true. So that last line would read:

Option "SHMConfig"
End Section

Viel glück!

[udutronik]

Hello Bslagowski and thanks for taking time to help me...

I've tried it, with no success. Inserted data are in xorg.conf but not taken into account.

Any other ideas to try?

What is this X86Config mentioned in gsynaptics error message? Do i have to do some edits there?

[udutronik]

I still havent succeded in making gnsynaptics to work! I've been googling around past few days with no luck...

Anybody has another idea? hoping for a solution..

[shacamin]

The same goes for me. I cannot seem to get the gsynaptics program to work.

[Crucible]

Add the following to your xorg.conf under the "Section "InputDevice""

Option "MaxTapTime" "0"

[udutronik]

OK Folks, i was able to solve my problem thanks to Bill LaGrue of the fedora-laptop-list

what i did was edit my xorg.conf some more. Here are the relevant sections:

1) in the Section "ServerLayout" : i added this line:

InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"

2) now the whole synaptics part :
-----snip-----

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "LeftEdge" "120"
Option "RightEdge" "830"
Option "TopEdge" "120"
Option "BottomEdge" "650"
Option "FingerLow" "14"
Option "FingerHigh" "15"
Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.3"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.75"
Option "SHMConfig" "True"
EndSection

3) To disable tapping, it can either be done in Gsynaptics GUI or by setting "MaxTapMove" to "0"

thanks everyone. Now Fedora works PERFECTLY!

[Dead1nside]

So the synaptics driver works for ALPS manufactured touchpads too?

[BlackBOX-MX]

i have resolved the tapping issue with this help but now when i put my finger on the touchpad (without moving the finger) the onscreen cursor moves to the lower right of the screen by itself. but if i realease my finger from the touchpad it get static ( as normal) do i need to change any value?

do i did something wrong.. my laptop is a Dell Inspiron 6400.. running F8.

F9 coming soon hehe.

thanks for your help in advance...

[BlackBOX-MX]

Originally Posted by BlackBOX-MX

i have resolved the tapping issue with this help but now when i put my finger on the touchpad (without moving the finger) the onscreen cursor moves to the lower right of the screen by itself. but if i realease my finger from the touchpad it get static ( as normal) do i need to change any value?

do i did something wrong.. my laptop is a Dell Inspiron 6400.. running F8.

F9 coming soon hehe.

thanks for your help in advance...

btw.. my touchpad only works if i disable with the GUI program the Scroll vertical and horizontal. if i dont my touch pad becomes all of it a "BIG SCROLL" hehe..!

[BlackBOX-MX]

Help?! Anyone?!