[ltp] R61 touchpad not recognized in Ubuntu

[Sébastien Mazy]

It seems to be a kernel bug, since xev reports "buttons 1 pressed" for
both left buttons. I've tried to improve trackpoint and touchpad's
behavior by editing xorg.org with no success.

Sébastien

On Dec 4, 2007 9:16 PM, Ugo Riboni <nerochiaro@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ugo, I just used the default configuration from readme.alps for synapti=
cs [cut]
>
> I am still stuck on the problem that causes the 3 buttons above the
> touchpad to not work properly.
> I found out the following, in the meantime:
> - hold down one of the 3 buttons and move touchpad, hold is lost
> - hold down one of the 3 buttons and move trackpoint, hold is maintained
> - hold down one of the 2 buttons below touchpad and move touchpad,
> hold is maintained
> - hold down one of the 2 buttons below touchpad and move trackpoint,
> hold is lost
>
> This seems more of a problem in how X.org is configured more than a
> drivers issue like suspected.
> However i'm not very experienced in xorg configuration.
>
> Can anyone with more experience please give a look at my xorg.conf at
> the address below, and tell me if something obviously wrong is going
> on ?
> http://pastebin.ca/805926
>
> Remember, i'm trying to use touchpad as primary pointing device with
> synaptics driver, and leave trackpoint in ps2 emu and as secondary
> pointer (i don't use trackpoint much but i don't want to disable in
> bios either, if possible)
>
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Ugo
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