Synaptics touchpad right click doen't click properly

[Matthew Monaco]

On 10/23/2010 09:42 AM, Louis Ixo wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for reply, meantime I found a Ubuntu bug where this problem is discussed
> for many new HP machines.
> If I well understood there is some kernel detection problem that should be fixed
> in newer kernels.
> People in this bug report say something about xorg-input drivers that should be
> used in new kernels for the synaptics touchpad detection. I'll try their patches
> then I let you know.
>
> Here the bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/582809
>
> Cheers,
> Louis
>
> Il 23/10/2010 14:50, Dan Nicholson ha scritto:
>> 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
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You have a "clickpad" it only has one big button and the location of your finger 
on the pad is used to determine which button is pressed. Clickpad support is not 
yet built into xf86-input-synaptics as of version 1.3.

You need Takashi Iwai's clickpad patches.