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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-factory] Touchpad too sensitive
From:       "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb () cesmail ! net>
Date:       2008-12-25 0:59:57
Message-ID: 4952DB0D.7080907 () cesmail ! net
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Javier Llorente wrote:
> On Monday 08 December 2008 18:45:06 z wrote:
>> 2008/12/8 z <zoomer.gm@gmail.com>:
>>> 2008/12/8 Javier Llorente <javier@opensuse.org>:
>>>> On Sunday 07 December 2008 22:21:21 Felix Möller wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My touchpad is too sensitive on openSUSE 11.1 RC 1. I have
>>>>>> played with
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> xorg.conf without any luck yet. Any suggestions? Mine is a AlpsPS/2
>>>>>> ALPS
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> GlidePoint according to hwinfo.
>>>>>>> are you using the synaptics driver?
>>>>>>  Yes, I am using the synaptics driver.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Section "InputDevice"
>>>>>>   Driver       "synaptics"
>>>>>>   Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
>>>>>>   Option       "AccelFactor" "0.1"
>>>>>> EndSection
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Section "InputDevice"
>>>>>>   Driver       "synaptics"
>>>>>>   Identifier   "Mouse[3]"
>>>>>>   Option       "AccelFactor" "0.1"
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Option       "FingerHigh" "17"
>>>>>>   Option       "FingerLow" "14"
>>>>>> EndSection
>>>>> play a little with "AccelFactor", "FingerHigh", "FingerLow" there is a
>>>>> ksynaptics too.
>>>> OK. I will. Thanks :)
>>>>
>>>>> But why do you have two tocuhpad sections in Xorg.conf? Was this
>>>>> generated by Sax2?
>>>> Yes, it was generated by SaX2.
>>>>
>>>>> Then file a bug, two tochpads do not seem right ...
>>>> Done.
>>>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457298
>>>>
>>>>> HTH
>>>>> Felix Möller
>>>> Greetings,
>>>> Javier
>>>>
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>>> Hi all.
>>> is it possible to tune synaptics acceleration from gui (yast\sax) ?
>>> or is there are plans for accessing that option from gui?
>>> it is rather wanted option for normal notebook users, cuz global mouse
>>> sensitivity needs to be adjusted each time you want to switch from
>>> touchpad to external mouse.
>> Hi all.
>> is it possible to tune synaptics acceleration from gui (yast\sax) ?
>> or is there are plans for accessing that option from gui?
>> it is rather wanted option for normal notebook users, cuz global mouse
>> sensitivity needs to be adjusted each time you want to switch from
>> touchpad to external mouse.
> 
> Stefan Dirsch suggested me to experiment with synclient (bug #457298, fixed). 
> You don't have to restart the X Window System since synclient changes the 
> settings on-the-fly. Quite useful. Try changing MinSpeed, MaxSpeed and/or 
> AccelFactor. Don't forget to make the changes permanent by editing Xorg.conf
> 
> Greetings,
> Javier
> 
>> p.s. this message was sent to the list once? or twice? excuse me for
>> latter, if so.
> 
> It's ok. You sent one message to my email address and another to the mailing 
> list.
> 

I think "sax2" may not put all the fields in "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" that
the Synaptics tuning utilities need. I'll test that out on my laptop,
but meanwhile, is there a bug to that effect already?

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P), WOM

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