Right click not work in Fedora 15 in touchpad

[Erick Lopez]

Hello everybody

I have a laptop HP 4520s, using Fedora 15 (is fine) gnome3, the unique problem is with touchpad, I can setup in system setting, the tap event works fine, but the right click not work.

I explain more especific, this kind of touchpad is very large and the left and right click are in the touchpad, and when i make a click every time send the left click event. the drag event is very dificoult too with this driver. I was use the same computer with opensuse 11.4 with KDE 4.6, and the touchpad works with out problem.

The touchpad is synaptics.

I will apreciate your help.

[kazysmaster]

Hi,

You are probably hitting https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=590835 bug. The clickpad buttons and DND work with patched synaptics package https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=501555
This is a source rpm, you need to build it before installing.
I guess opensuse uses some unofficial clickpad patches, while fedora does not.

[Erick Lopez]

Hi kazysmaster,
Thanks for your help

I review your links, but I not found an aswer jet.

[mulikvishal]

Hi kazysmaster,

Thanks for that source rpm.I have successfully built the rpm's using the source rpm file.
I have also tested these rpm's on fedora 15.Anyone having problem with their touchpad can install these rpm's and right click would start working after reboot.

[tuxor]

Is this patch still working in Fedora 16? Has somebody tried already?

---------- Post added at 09:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:24 PM ----------

There's already version 1.5.0 of xorg-x11-drv-synaptics. So we're gonna need a new version of that patched rpm. Is it hard to apply the patch manually and build from sources?
Ain't it possible to patch it like in OpenSuse or Archlinux (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38120)?

[kazysmaster]

The patch from Archlinux seems to work.

[tuxor]

Thanks a lot! I'm going to try myself at the weekend and report back.

(At the moment, I'm still on F15, testing F16 only via LiveCD.)

[mese79]

It works!!
Thanks alot!

[tuxor]

I compiled kazysmaster's src.rpm on a 64bit-machine (running F16) and thus obtained the (working) RPM in the attachment. Feel free to use it.

The Archlinux patch works fine, but the white LED (to turn touchpad on/off) in Powerbook 4520s is still not working, which - in principle - isn't that bad. But please note, that this LED _is_ working in OpenSuse 11.4 (didn't test with 12.1).

[kazysmaster]

I think the kernel should be patched as well in order to get white LED working.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49284

[tuxor]

Clickpad support has now been integrated into the latest xf86-input-synaptics sources, see http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTA3MDY. You can simply build the official sources from git. Maybe you need to add these lines to a file in your xorg.conf.d:

Section "InputClass"
   Identifier "touchpad catchall"
   Driver "synaptics"
   MatchIsTouchpad "on"
   MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
   Option "TapButton1" "1"
   Option "TapButton2" "2"
   Option "TapButton3" "3"
   Option "SHMConfig" "on"
   Option "ClickPad" "1"
   Option "RightButtonAreaLeft" "3500"
   Option "RightButtonAreaRight" "0"
   Option "RightButtonAreaTop" "3700"
   Option "RightButtonAreaBottom" "0"
   # Is the following line doing the same as the four above?
   #Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection

For the white led, you'll need some more effort. At least the kernel module mentioned by kazysmaster. But maybe also these patches: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57575

[tuxor]

With Fedora 17, we get clickpad support out of the box. Still the LED on the probook's clickpad isn't working at all due to the necessary kernel changes.