The problems I now have are that my version of xinput is 1.3.0 (Ubuntu Hardy) and I don't have the --set-prop option. Since the GrabEventDevice option in xorg.conf messes up my xserver, I tried removing the synaptics driver completely and I can now get the data in via [hid] and [linuxevent]. The problem is that I no longer have two-fingered scrolling and can't disable the touchpad tap without a driver. I tried to install the Alps driver but had an error as reported here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1277553#3
any help appreciated
James
Quoth Pedro Lopes, on 20/06/10 11:08:
Yep, it does. When you posted the second reply mentioning xinput I did xinput --help and there it was "the --list command".
Thanks for the help, Pedro
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:22 AM, dmotd <inaudible@simplesuperlativ.es mailto:inaudible@simplesuperlativ.es> wrote:
'xinput --list' provides a list of all supported devices. Pedro Lopes wrote: > I've never used hid or linuxmouse. And when I saw your message I gave it a try > (since I'm also running Ubuntu and have a synaptics touchpad). > > I'd like to help but here it seems to be even a bigger mess... it crashes when > accessing the mouse evice with hid. (probably because of the user space issue > that dmotd mentioned). > > How did you get that device list? Is it a print from hid? (the only things I > remember is lspci and lsusb) > > Best regards to everyone, and big up to Hans-Christoph Steiner for hid and > linuxmouse, > Pedro > > > > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:48 PM, dmotd <inaudible@simplesuperlativ.es <mailto:inaudible@simplesuperlativ.es>> wrote: > > also another tip, its possible to configure a > device dynamically with 'xinput', you can > toggle off with: > xinput --set-prop "name of device" "Device Enabled" 0 > i use this with my wacom tablet to go between > xorg device and HID, a full set of properties > can be found with: > xinput --list-props "name of device" > i hope this is of help. > > James Dunn wrote: > > I've tried using [hid] and [linuxmouse] and both objects can open the > device > > but no data is output from either object. [MouseState] and [cursor] both > work > > but I was hoping to get relative values. Is this a driver issue? I'm > using > > Ubuntu 8.04 and Pd version 0.42.5-extended-rc3. Here's the console > output: > > > > [hid] 0.7, written by Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@eds.org <mailto:hans@eds.org>> > > compiled on Jun 13 2010 at 11:45:43 > > > > Device 0: 'Macintosh mouse button emulation' on '/dev/input/event0' > > Device 1: 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard' on '/dev/input/event1' > > Device 2: 'PC Speaker' on '/dev/input/event2' > > Device 3: 'Power Button (FF)' on '/dev/input/event3' > > Device 4: 'Sleep Button (CM)' on '/dev/input/event4' > > Device 5: 'Lid Switch' on '/dev/input/event5' > > Device 6: 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' on '/dev/input/event6' > > Device 7: 'Video Bus' on '/dev/input/event7' > > Device 8: 'PS/2 Generic Mouse' on '/dev/input/event8' > > > > > > Supported events: > > > > Detected: > > [hid] opened device 6 (/dev/input/event6): SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad > > print: open 1 > > print: device 6 > > > > > > Also my xorg.conf has this info: > > > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" > > Driver "synaptics" > > Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" > > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > > Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" > > Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "FALSE" > > Option "VertEdgeScroll" "FALSE" > > Option "SHMconfig" "on" > > Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "TRUE" > > Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "TRUE" > > EndSection > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > thanks, > > > > James