Re: Touchpad speed

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <peetz@scai.fraunhofer.de>]

Matthias Brennwald wrote:
> Dear all
> 
> moving the cursor with the touchpad of my PowerBook G4 is very slow in
> Debian Etch. I played around with the settings in xorg.conf, and that
> helped a bit, but it's still rather slow. I mainly played with
> 'AccelFactor' (I used values 0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1, and 10) and
> 'HorizScrollDelta' and 'VertScrollDelta' (I used values 0, 1, 10 and
> 100). My current settings are:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
>         Driver          "synaptics"
>         Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
>         Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
>         Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "100"
>         Option          "VertScrollDelta"       "100"
>         Option          "AccelFactor"           "0.01"
> EndSection
> 
> Any ideas or hints on how to speed up my cursor from the touchpad?
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 
Do you have an Alps touchpad? Take a look at the output of

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

The Alps touchpad needs a different configuration, see
/usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/README.alps

-- 
Regards,
Jörg-Volker.