[kadi]

Hi,

today i got my mini 10v

when i played with the original dell Ubuntu 8.xx installation i noticed that in the areas of the mousebuttons, the sensitivity of the trackpad was disabled for cursor moving.

I thought thats wonderful and and the touchpad worked like a treat for me.


Later i installed ubuntu 9.04 but unfortunately it doesn't behave like that any more. Holding and draging is nearly impossible now.

so please ...
could someone who still has dells preinstalled Ubuntu, please take a look in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf to see if there are any synaptics settings?

And post them for me?

Or point me to the drivers if they are availible? or teach me the right way to configure the synaptics pad in ubuntu?

[Red Crow]

I installed UNR 9.04 and have the same problem. How can I reconfigure the touchpad to not respond near the mouse buttons?

[MorCeleb]

I have just received my 10v, here is my xorg.conf touchpad section:

######################################
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
#Option "MovementBottomEdge" "4300"
EndSection
########################################

Maybe it can help

[kadi]

I am still struggling with that problem.

I made it better by activating horizontal scrolling.

This places a virtual scrollbar on the bottom edge of the touchpad and also disables cursor movement events on the bottom edge - there where the mousebuttons are.

That helps a little bit and doubleclick on icons is now possible. But cick'n'drag is still a nightmare.

try in Terminal:

xinput --set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Edge Scrolling" 8 1 1 0

[kadi]

Thank yo all so far.

could someone who has Dells default Ubuntu installed on his mini 10v, please run the following from shell and post the result for me?

xinput list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"

[mescanne]

The result of that is as follows:root@mescanne:/etc# xinput list "Synaptics Touchpad"
"Synaptics Touchpad" id=4 [XExtensionPointer]
Num_buttons is 12
Num_axes is 2
Mode is Relative
Motion_buffer is 256
Axis 0 :
Min_value is 0
Max_value is -1
Resolution is 3
Axis 1 :
Min_value is 0
Max_value is -1
Resolution is 1

Please let me know this may be useful in configuring Ubuntu properly!

thanks

Mark

[MorCeleb]

kadi did you find a solution? yesterday i installed UNR and started struggling with the trackpad :-P

I even tought that dell could have used a customized synaptics driver, but the deb package in the dell repository is for lpia architecture and the are no sources.

[Al1966]

the track pad on the 10v with 9.04 works just fine as long as you are pressing down on the absolute botton left of the pad before you use a second finger to move whatever it is you have grabbed

Takes a few moments practice, but once mastered it makes the 10v's pad one of the better I have use on a netbook - certainly a lot better than the one the Aspire One.

[kadi]

I would like to know if dell has a custom Synaptics driver or if theres a way to configure synaptics the way like dells does.

I dont know if xinput list-props is a feature of more recent xorg versions like in ubuntu jaunty. Does it work in 8.04?

@mescanne: have you tryed it and it did not work? Theres a difference between "list" and "list-props".

xxxxx@mini10v:~$ xinput list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
    Device Enabled (109):        1
    Synaptics Edges (256):        1632, 5312, 1575, 4281
    Synaptics Finger (257):        24, 29, 255
    Synaptics Tap Time (258):        180
    Synaptics Tap Move (259):        221
    Synaptics Tap Durations (260):        180, 180, 100
    Synaptics Tap FastTap (261):        0
    Synaptics Middle Button Timeout (262):        75
    Synaptics Two-Finger Pressure (263):        280
    Synaptics Scrolling Distance (264):        100, 100
    Synaptics Edge Scrolling (265):        1, 1, 0
    Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling (266):        1, 0
    Synaptics Edge Motion Pressure (267):        29, 159
    Synaptics Edge Motion Speed (268):        1, 401
    Synaptics Edge Motion Always (269):        0
    Synaptics Button Scrolling (270):        1, 1
    Synaptics Button Scrolling Repeat (271):        1, 1
    Synaptics Button Scrolling Time (272):        100
    Synaptics Off (273):        0
    Synaptics Guestmouse Off (274):        0
    Synaptics Locked Drags (275):        0
    Synaptics Locked Drags Timeout (276):        5000
    Synaptics Tap Action (277):        2, 3, 0, 0, 1, 2, 3
    Synaptics Click Action (278):        1, 1, 1
    Synaptics Circular Scrolling (279):        0
    Synaptics Circular Scrolling Trigger (280):        0
    Synaptics Circular Pad (281):        0
    Synaptics Palm Detection (282):        0
    Synaptics Palm Dimensions (283):        10, 199
    Synaptics Pressure Motion (284):        29, 159
    Synaptics Grab Event Device (285):        1

[chrishutchins]

Has anyone found a solution to this yet? Please don't force me to use windows