Hardy Alpha 5: Touchpad woes

By Mike

I have been playing with Hardy Alpha 5 on my laptop this weekend and it is a truly a work of art, with a few rough edges. One of the main problems I have been having is with my Synaptic touchpad. It was over sensitive and scrolling would not work.

After reading varies forum posts and wikis I have found a xorg.conf that work will for me, YMMV. The sections in green are what I added to my base xorg.conf.

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type “man xorg.conf” at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Generic Keyboard”
Driver “kbd”
Option “XkbRules” “xorg”
Option “XkbModel” “pc105″
Option “XkbLayout” “us”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Configured Mouse”
Driver “mouse”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Synaptics Touchpad”
Driver “synaptics”
Option “SendCoreEvents” “true”
Option “Device” “/dev/psaux”
Option “Protocol” “auto-dev”
Option “LeftEdge” “1900″
Option “RightEdge” “5000″
Option “TopEdge” “1400″
Option “BottomEdge” “4500″
Option “FingerLow” “25″
Option “FingerHigh” “35″
Option “MaxTapTime” “180″
Option “MaxTapMove” “220″
Option “ClickTime” “0″
Option “VertEdgeScroll” “1″
Option “VertScrollDelta” “45″
Option “HorizEdgeScroll” “1″
Option “HorizScrollDelta” “45″
Option “MinSpeed” “0.08″
Option “MaxSpeed” “0.60″
Option “AccelFactor” “0.003″
Option “EdgeMotionMinSpeed” “200″
Option “EdgeMotionMaxSpeed” “200″
Option “TapButton1″ “1″
Option “TapButton2″ “3″
Option “TapButton3″ “2″
Option “SHMConfig” “on”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier “Configured Video Device”
Driver “nvidia”
Option “NoLogo” “True”
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Configured Monitor”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Monitor “Configured Monitor”
Device “Configured Video Device”
Defaultdepth 24
EndSection

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Default Layout”
Screen “Default Screen”
Inputdevice “Generic Keyboard”
Inputdevice “Configured Mouse” “CorePointer”

# Uncomment if you have a wacom tablet
# InputDevice “stylus” “SendCoreEvents”
# InputDevice “cursor” “SendCoreEvents”
# InputDevice “eraser” “SendCoreEvents”
Inputdevice “Synaptics Touchpad”
EndSection

Section “Module”
Load “glx”
EndSection

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