Re: Very slow touch pad on laptop

[edwardsa <edwardsa@afrl.kirtland.af.mil>]

Owen Heisler wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 10:28 -0700, edwardsa wrote:
>   
> > Since I upgraded my laptop to testing, the touch pad on my Dell latitude 
> > 600 has a very low ratio between motion of my finger and motion of the 
> > mouse. I have tried fiddling with the mouse settings, but nothing has 
> > helped. FWIW, the XP side has displayed no such slow-down, so it's 
> > clearly a software issue. Any help would be appreciated.
> >     
>
> When I installed Debian I had to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf because my
> touchpad was very slow; maybe it would be helpful to see mine, although
> I don't know what driver your touchpad uses...
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier	"Synaptics Touchpad"
> 	Driver		"synaptics"
> 	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
> 	Option		"Device"		"/dev/psaux"
> 	Option		"Protocol"		"auto-dev"
> 	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"yes"
> 	Option		"LeftEdge"		"120"
> 	Option		"RightEdge"		"835"
> 	Option		"TopEdge"		"120"
> 	Option		"BottomEdge"		"650"
> 	Option		"FingerLow"		"14"
> 	Option		"FingerHigh"		"15"
> 	Option		"MaxTapMove"		"110"
> 	Option		"VertScrollDelta"	"20"
> 	Option		"HorizScrollDelta"	"0"
> 	Option		"MinSpeed"		"0.3"
> 	Option		"MaxSpeed"		"2.5"
> 	Option		"MaxTapTime"		"0"
> 	Option		"AccelFactor"		"0.025"
> 	Option		"SHMconfig"		"true"
> EndSection
>
>
>   
Owen:

Thanks very much. I applied your patch verbatim, only adding a 
MaxTapTime of 180 so that I can tap for a left mouse click. My laptop 
works well again.

Art Edwards

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