Hyperactive Touchpad - 2.6.9

[Crusty]

I upgraded my kernel from 2.4.26 to 2.6.9 and now my touchpad is suuuuper sensitive. If I tap it for a left click it clicks like 30 times, and the cursor moves really fast.

Is there anyway to tweak this?

 

[Infohawk]

Originally posted by: MCrusty
I upgraded my kernel from 2.4.26 to 2.6.9 and now my touchpad is suuuuper sensitive. If I tap it for a left click it clicks like 30 times, and the cursor moves really fast.

Is there anyway to tweak this?

Do you have a synaptic touchpad? I did. And for the 2.6 kernels there was some configuration options in the XF86Config file. You could turn off touch tapping, speed and all sorts of stuff. I would look in there.

What distro are you using?

 

[Crusty]

Im using Debian w/ X.org. I'll dig around in my config file. I believe it's a synaptic...but I have no idea. It's an old 900mhz duron Comcrap laptop.

 

[Nothinman]

The kernel logs should say whether it's using the synaptic driver in psmouse or not.

I personally use the xfree86-driver-synaptics Debian package with the normal Debian X, but if you've installed X.org you're probably on your own.

 

[Crusty]

Nov 7 14:02:57 lappy kernel: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Nov 7 14:02:57 lappy kernel: input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
Nov 7 14:02:57 lappy kernel: input: IBM PC110 TouchPad at 0x15e0 irq 10
Nov 7 14:02:57 lappy kernel: atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly.
Nov 7 14:02:57 lappy kernel: Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1
Nov 7 14:02:57 lappy kernel: Firmware: 5.8
Nov 7 14:02:57 lappy kernel: 180 degree mounted touchpad
Nov 7 14:02:57 lappy kernel: Sensor: 29
Nov 7 14:02:57 lappy kernel: new absolute packet format
Nov 7 14:02:57 lappy kernel: Touchpad has extended capability bits
Nov 7 14:02:57 lappy kernel: -> 4 multi-buttons, i.e. besides standard buttons
Nov 7 14:02:57 lappy kernel: -> multifinger detection
Nov 7 14:02:57 lappy kernel: -> palm detection
Nov 7 14:02:57 lappy kernel: input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1


I'm guessing that means I have a Synaptic touchpad 😉

Here is my mouse section from xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection


Should I change the protocol to SynPS/2?

Infohawk, what lines did you add to tweak the speed etc?

 

[drag]

I have a touchpad on my Laptop (duh 😉) and it's synaptic.

Check out here

I don't bother with the 2.6 patches, but I just download and install the driver. Read the readme in the tarball and the online documentation on howto configure it.

This driver is a big improvement over the generic PS/2 stuff you can set with the "mouse" driver. Pay close attention to the steps...

With this you can configure mouse speed, and do nice double tap tricks like:
1 finger double taps=left button
2 fingers (2 fingers at the same time) double taps=middle button
3 fingers (although I have a tough time with 3 fingers) double taps = right button.

I use the 1 finger and 2 finger double tap technic and just use the right mouse button as the right mouse button.

Stuff like that.

edit:

Also with 2.6 they have a new driver interface with the mouse and other stuff. For instance you have /dev/input/mice and /dev/input/mouse0 /dev/input/mouse1 and stuff like that, but also they added /dev/input/event* and that's the evdev stuff. It's a lot more flexible then the mouse mice stuff.

 

[Crusty]

Awesome drag, it works great now 🙂

Thanks