Synaptics touchpad right click doen't click properly

[Dan Nicholson]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Louis Ixo <lixo1 at hotmail.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for your reply!
>
> please run evtest against the device to check if the information we get from
> the kernel is correct. note that you need to VT switch away from the server
> to get events out of the synaptics device
>
> I just tried, first I killed Xorg then I run evtest /dev/input/mouse1
> (touchpad), and I got:
> evtest: can't get version: Inappropriate ioctl for device

You need to run it against the evdev device. It will be one of
/dev/input/event* nodes, and you can look at the symlinks in
/dev/input/by-{id,path} to determine which one. Or you can read
/proc/bus/input/devices to see which device it is.

--
Dan