synaptics issues

rather than fill up my other blogs w/ Linux laptop configuration things, I figured I would post the continued efforts of config and customization here.

I'm trying to get the touchtap functionality to work properly.

Synaptics is installed,and the configuratino which should enable touchtap is in place. But it doesn't work.

I've used "xev" to determine if the system sees the touch, and that indicates that there is no touch going on.

Weird, because when I set the protocol to "event" to use the linux kernel event driver, the touch tap works until gnome launches.

There were a lot of variations that were happening after sleeping and resuming. There were also inconsistencies between the mouse behavior during startup and after startup. So, I decided to ditch all the gconf settings relevant to the touchpad and the mouse until I got the touchtap working properly. Of course, now my sidebar scrolling is not functioning, but I will be able to set that later.

I think that what I will have to do is use gsynaptics to set the sidebar scrolling, then remove all the speed settings that it creates, which seem to interfere with the settings that I have defined in xorg.con. The alternative is to get the config working, then pull the settings out of xorg.conf and just use gconf. We'll see how it turns out best.

current config:



Section "InputDevice"
##This line matches name from step 1
Identifier "SynapticsTouchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "AlwaysCore"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
## Option "Protocol" "psaux"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.50"
Option "MaxSpeed" "1.30"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.350"
Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"
Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"
Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "2"
Option "TapButton3" "1"
Option "FastTaps" "1"
EndSection