Remapping Synaptics Touchpad

Harald Braumann harry at unheit.net
Thu Feb 4 15:28:07 PST 2010


On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:55:58 +1000
Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 11:27:38PM +0100, Harald Braumann wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:28:51 +1000
> > Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > You can set the touchpad up to be scrolling only by letting the
> > > evdev driver handle it and then set the scroll wheel emulation
> > > button to 0.
> > 
> > It doesn't seem to have this property. `xinput list-props' appended
> > below. I've also atached my xorg.conf and the log, just in case. 
> > 
> > There is a `Synaptics Button Scrolling', and I've set it to
> > `0, 0', but that didn't change anything.
> 
> right, that's because your touchpad is still handled by the synaptics
> driver. replace synaptics with evdev for your touchpad and restart
> HAL + X, that'll do then. lshal should show input.x11_driver = evdev
> for your device before starting X, then you'll see the right
> properties. more details are on
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Input_device_configuration

I don't use HAL but udev. How can I configure it there? Btw., thats 1.7.

I thought, evdev was the default.

Cheers,
harry
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