Re: Synaptics touchpad two-finger scrolling

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@mailsnare.net>]

Hello,

I have a UnibodyMacBook with the ClickPad:
the box is a Lenny box running kernel 2.6.30

The two fingers stuff is working well (but not the secondary click).

synclient -l gives:
Parameter settings:
   LeftEdge                = 0
   RightEdge               = 1280
   TopEdge                 = 0
   BottomEdge              = 800
   FingerLow               = 20
   FingerHigh              = 30
   FingerPress             = 256
   MaxTapTime              = 150
   MaxTapMove              = 220
   MaxDoubleTapTime        = 180
   SingleTapTimeout        = 180
   ClickTime               = 100
   FastTaps                = 0
   EmulateMidButtonTime    = 75
   EmulateTwoFingerMinZ    = 257
   VertScrollDelta         = 5
   HorizScrollDelta        = 0
   VertEdgeScroll          = 0
   HorizEdgeScroll         = 0
   CornerCoasting          = 0
   VertTwoFingerScroll     = 1
   HorizTwoFingerScroll    = 1
   MinSpeed                = 0.94
   MaxSpeed                = 1
   AccelFactor             = 0.0015
   TrackstickSpeed         = 40
   EdgeMotionMinZ          = 30
   EdgeMotionMaxZ          = 160
   EdgeMotionMinSpeed      = 1
   EdgeMotionMaxSpeed      = 80
   EdgeMotionUseAlways     = 0
   UpDownScrolling         = 1
   LeftRightScrolling      = 1
   UpDownScrollRepeat      = 1
   LeftRightScrollRepeat   = 1
   ScrollButtonRepeat      = 100
   TouchpadOff             = 0
   GuestMouseOff           = 0
   LockedDrags             = 0
   LockedDragTimeout       = 5000
   RTCornerButton          = 2
   RBCornerButton          = 0
   LTCornerButton          = 3
   LBCornerButton          = 0
   TapButton1              = 1
   TapButton2              = 2
   TapButton3              = 3
   CircularScrolling       = 0
   CircScrollDelta         = 0.1
   CircScrollTrigger       = 0
   CircularPad             = 0
   PalmDetect              = 1
   PalmMinWidth            = 10
   PalmMinZ                = 200
   CoastingSpeed           = 0
   PressureMotionMinZ      = 30
   PressureMotionMaxZ      = 160
   PressureMotionMinFactor = 1
   PressureMotionMaxFactor = 1
   GrabEventDevice         = 1

hth,
Jerome

Stackpole, Chris wrote:
> > From: Sjoerd Hardeman [mailto:sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:18 AM
> > Subject: Re: Synaptics touchpad two-finger scrolling
> >
> > Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > > I had two-finger scrolling working with explicit lines in the
> xorg.conf.
> [snip]
> > > yet in X it doesn't. Two-finger scrolling does not work, and trying
> > > synclient of gsynaptics gives a message like
> > > > Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?
> > > Does anybody know what's going on?
> > Nobody? Should I file a bug for the driver?
>
> I don't know if it is worth filing a bug report over yet, but I would at
> least try to contact some of the dev's working on it. I have not seen
> much discussion on two-touch devices on this list so I suspect that
> there are not a lot of people using it.
>
> In my experience, two touch is one of those things that people were
> drooling over a couple months ago but now no one I know is using it
> (even the Apple guys I know with the Macbooks and iPhones don't care).
> *shrug* I am not saying that it is bad or isn't useful to people out
> there, just that I don't know how much help you will get on just the
> user lists when there are so few people using it. 
>
> I usually don't advocate talking to the devs ( as I don't want to bother
> them with trivial problems ) but they are probably the most likely to be
> able to help you. I would check to see who the Synaptics devs are and
> see if they hang out on a particular list / IRC. Then, if no answer,
> maybe send them an email directly.
>
> Good luck and have fun!
>
> ~Stack~
>
> PS: Now watch as I find out a ton of people are using it on the list and
> it is just the tiny bubble of people I interact with that don't. :-D
> Haha!

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Jerome BENOIT
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