Need help with M$ touchmouse
Gene Heskett
gheskett at wdtv.com
Sun Dec 7 15:50:45 PST 2014
On Saturday 06 December 2014 06:14:12 Peter Hutterer did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On 6/12/2014 12:33 , Gene Heskett wrote:
> > 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.
>
> please read up on a few tutorials on how to build software from source
> and how to interpret the configure output. none of this here is
> special, we just use standard automake stuff.
>
> fwiw, the documentation is just doxygen, you can read it online on the
> libevdev website, no need to build it locally.
Thats probably good enough Peter, but I'd worry about my install getting
out of step with the docs, so I would rather have the docs that go with
the version installed.
Since configure doesn't seem to do it, can I tweak the config.out to add
that? Or use doxygen to make my own maybe. I know that tool has been
around for yonks, but I've never run it. I just tried a man doxygen and
came up empty. So its not even installed. I'll see if it will from the
repo.
I finally , last night got tired of fighting with that mouse so it will
likely join others on a yard sale table next year. Logitek M320 working
now, no touch pad. A little sensitive for my arthritic fingers, but works
much better overall. And I just found the fix for the unwanted
sensitivity, lift the button plastic leaf an 1/8" and jam a 1/2" long
piece of foam about 1/8" wide cut from a cd stack top pad, under the
button leaf. They now sit about 20 thou higher and don't go off unless I
consciously press the button. To me, thats ideal.
Thank you Peter.
> Cheers,
> Peter
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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