Flight 5 bugs?

[Matthew Kuiken]

Matthew Kuiken wrote:
> Γιάννης Παπαδόπουλος wrote:
>> Good evening everybody
>>>>
>>> Yannis,
>>>
>>> I have a Sony VGN-TX650P.  I don't know if yours will act the same or 
>>> not, but I had to change my xorg.conf (in /etc/X11) to get my 
>>> touchpad working correctly.
>> Etc/X11 is a folder. Shall I add the code that follows in two files 
>> that I should save in this folder? Sorry but I need detailed 
>> instructions in order to accomplish the slightest thing in Linux.
>>>
>>> I added the following section:
>>>
>>> Section "InputDevice"
>>>     Identifier    "Synaptics Touchpad"
>>>     Driver        "synaptics"
>>>     Option "AlwaysCore"
>>>     Option        "SendCoreEvents"    "true"
>>>     Option        "Device"        "/dev/input/event2"
>>>     Option        "Protocol"        "event"
>>>     Option "LeftEdge" "130"
>>>     Option "RightEdge" "840"
>>>     Option "TopEdge" "130"
>>>     Option "BottomEdge" "640"
>>>     Option "FingerLow" "7"
>>>     Option "FingerHigh" "8"
>>>     Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
>>>     Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
>>>     Option "ClickTime" "0"
>>>     Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"
>>>     Option "VertScrollDelta" "10"
>>>     Option "HorizScrollDelta" "10"
>>>     Option "MinSpeed" "0.60"
>>>     Option "MaxSpeed" "1.10"
>>>     Option "AccelFactor" "0.030"
>>>     Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"
>>>     Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"
>>>     Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
>>>     Option "CircularScrolling" "1"
>>>     Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"
>>>     Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
>>>     Option "SHMConfig" "on"
>>>     Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
>>> EndSection
>>>
>>> And commented out:
>>>
>>> #Section "InputDevice"
>>> #       Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
>>> #       Driver          "synaptics"
>>> #       Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
>>> #       Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
>>> #       Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
>>> #       Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "0"
>>> #EndSection
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not certain what it all means, but the touchpad works much better 
>>> now.  I believe that I first found this on the web forums.  From what 
>>> I've read, MinSpeed, MaxSpeed, and AccelFactor are the important 
>>> options for fixing the speed.  I haven't bothered to try to remove or 
>>> adjust any of the options since it works pretty well right now.
>>>
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> -Matt Kuiken
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks again
>> Yannis
>>
> 
> Yannis,
> 
> xorg.conf is a file in the /etc/X11 folder.
> 
> To edit it, open a terminal window (sorry, I use Gnome so I don't know 
> how to do this in KDE.)
> 
> type 'sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf'
> 
> find the section in the file that looks like the one with # (hash marks) 
> in front of it.  Add the # marks at the first character of all of the 
> lines of that section.  Note the string in the Identifier spot in the 
> section.
> 
> Type in the section that does not have the # marks from above into the 
> file below the section you just commented out.  Change the string on the 
> Identifier line to match the one in the section you commented out above. 
>  This Identifier field is just something that is used to reference this 
> section later, so the value does not matter.  It gets used again in the 
> ServerLayout section at the bottom of the file.  The only important 
> thing about the identifier is that it matches in these two places.
> 
> I am attaching my xorg.conf file for you to look at, but I would not 
> recommend taking anything more than clues from my file.  I have made 
> some other edits which I am not certain are correct.
> 
> Please write again if this is unclear.  I am learning to give tech 
> support via email.  I've always done it over the phone before, and the 
> feedback loop is much slower here...
> 
> Hope This Helps,
> -Matt
> 
Oops, I forgot to attach the file...

-Matt

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