Need help with M$ touchmouse

Fri Dec 5 18:33:30 PST 2014

On Friday 05 December 2014 18:46:58 Peter Hutterer did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On 6/12/2014 01:56 , Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 December 2014 23:03:38 Peter Hutterer did opine
> > 
> > And Gene did reply:
> >> On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:43:44PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>> On Thursday 04 December 2014 16:18:16 Peter Hutterer did opine
> >>> 
> >>> And Gene did reply:
> >>>> On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 01:23:49PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>>>> Greetings all;
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> I have a wireless M$ Explorer Touchmouse, and the touch pad is
> >>>>> buggier than a 10 day old carcass.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Specifically, the side scrolling is driving me crazy, and its not
> >>>>> a long trip. ;)
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> When it works, its 20x more sensitive sideways than vertically,
> >>>>> and I can't get my fingers far enough away from the pad to stop
> >>>>> its crazy behavior, and still rest them in a comfy location for
> >>>>> button pushing.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Is there anything I can put in an /etc/X11 file that will shut
> >>>>> the side scroll function off, but leave the vertical finger
> >>>>> drags working?
> >>>> 
> >>>> attach an evemu recording and your xorg.log to a bug please. I
> >>>> don't have a recording for this one yet so it's hard to tell.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> 
> >>>>     Peter
> >>> 
> >>> First off Peter, evemu is not 'locate'able.  And I'm not sure you
> >>> want the current Xorg.0.log in your mailbox as its north of 179
> >>> megabytes.
> >> 
> >> you could have restarted X, or started another session for a fresh
> >> log file. or cut down the thousands of lines of errors which is
> >> likely what 99% of the log file are if it grows to that size in a
> >> week.
> >> 
> >>> I even sicc'd synaptic to find it in the ubuntu repo, and came up
> >>> dry there too.
> >> 
> >> evemu shows up as second link on google for me:
> >> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Evemu/
> >> 
> >> but tbh, if you're on a 4 year old box you're pretty much on your
> >> own, sorry. there may have been kernel fixes since, there may have
> >> been evdev fixes since, etc.
> > 
> > I do occsionally build a fresher kernel because the default kernel
> > for this particular install, an rtai kit on top of 2.6.32-123, has
> > no PAE and there's 8Gb in this box.  Running the OEM kernel only
> > sees 3Gb of that, and I'm a gigabyte into swap in 24hrs.
> > 
> > So the presently running kernel is a 3.16.0.  32 bit with PAE. 
> > Hasn't touched swap in months.
> > 
> > Nest, that link 3rd line is bogus, needs an ".sh" tagged onto the
> > ./autogen script cli invocation.
> > 
> > The autogen output this to the screen:
> > gene at coyote:/usr/src/evemu$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
> > autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> > autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> > autoreconf: running: aclocal
> > autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
> > autoreconf: configure.ac: creating directory config-aux
> > autoreconf: running: libtoolize --install --copy
> > libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR,
> > `config-aux'. libtoolize: copying file `config-aux/config.guess'
> > libtoolize: copying file `config-aux/config.sub'
> > libtoolize: copying file `config-aux/install-sh'
> > libtoolize: copying file `config-aux/ltmain.sh'
> > libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to
> > configure.ac and
> > libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros
> > in- tree.
> > libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in
> > Makefile.am. autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
> > autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader
> > autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force
> > configure.ac:12: installing `config-aux/missing'
> > python/Makefile.am:20: installing `config-aux/py-compile'
> > src/Makefile.am: installing `config-aux/depcomp'
> > autoreconf: Leaving directory `.'
> > 
> > But make cannot find the makefile, and indeed there was not one
> > created. The INSTALL inserts a ./configure step in the sequence, and
> > that bails out for lack of:
> > 
> > checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> > checking for LIBEVDEV... configure: error: Package requirements
> > (libevdev
> > 
> >> = 1.2.99.902) were not met:
> > No package 'libevdev' found
> > 
> > Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> > installed software in a non-standard prefix.
> > 
> > Alternatively, you may set the environment variables LIBEVDEV_CFLAGS
> > and LIBEVDEV_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> > See the pkg-config man page for more details.
> > 
> > Apparently I'll need a git URL to get it and install it?  Amazingly
> > that gets zero hits on google.  You have found the ultimate google
> > non-entity! That has NEVER happened before.
> > 
> > So you see what I need to do above and I am waiting, with "baited"
> > breath for further instruction. ;-)
> 
> http://who-t.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/configure-fails-with-no-package-fo
> o.html
> 
> Cheers,
>    Peter

That is quite helpful.  But this system hasn't such a critter.  So I 
pulled in the tarball for libevdev-1.3, but nothing I can do with a --
with-docs, or even spelling it out, seems to convince it to build the docs 
too.

End of configure bailout
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-documentation

	       Prefix				/usr/local
	       Libdir				${exec_prefix}/lib

	       Build documentation		no
	       Build unit-tests			no
	       Enable profiling			no
	       Static library symbol check	yes

 a --help doesn't show it as an option either.  And that does puzzle me 
because the --help on most configure scripts is 2 or 3 screens full.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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