How do I enable 'tap to click' on mousepad?

[jojohippo]

Hi, I understand that the new default behaviour of the synaptic driver is to disable tap to click by defualt (Boo!). I learnt from here that all you have to do is add

       Option "TapButton1" "1"
       Option "TapButton2" "2"

to xorg.conf to get the tap to click working.

My xorg.conf file does not have any touchpad input devices. How do I add those two lines.

This is my xorg.conf

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# keyboard added by rhpxl
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "intel"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

[dejan.kitic]

This is how it should look like:

PHP Code:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Default Layout"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "TouchPad" "CorePointer"
EndSection

#Another section for Touchpad
Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier  "Touchpad"
    Driver      "synaptics"
       Option      "SendCoreEvents"
       Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
       Option      "TapButton1" "1"
       Option      "TapButton2" "2"
       Option      "TapButton3" "3"
       Option      "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection 


Also take a look at this for more details:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad

Cheers, D

[joko77]

The driver is synaptics and not synaptic.

Driver "synpatics"

[jojohippo]

Thanks both of you! I copied dejan.kitic's post and changed it to synaptics... mousepad now works great! This is what my xorg.conf file looks like now:

# Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "TouchPad" "CorePointer" 
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# keyboard added by rhpxl
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

#Another section for Touchpad
Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier  "Touchpad"
    Driver      "synaptics"
       Option      "SendCoreEvents"
       Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
       Option "TapButton1" "1"
       Option "TapButton2" "2"
       Option "TapButton3" "3"
       Option      "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection 

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "intel"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

[MrGroover]

Is there a way of setting these values without using the xorg.conf file?

[jojohippo]

MrGroover, The only way I found for enabling tap to click without editing grub was adding a line to my grub menu file. Unfortunately it wasn't as good as editing xorg.conf because scrolling on the touchpad didnt' work.

You have to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add 'psmouse.proto=imps' to the line that begins with kernel. You can see this post. Again, the xorg.conf way worked better for me.

[tscheez]

editing xorg.conf enabled tapping when X first starts, but if it goes to suspend, tapping doesn't work until X is restarted.

[jojohippo]

tscheez, I've noticed that too. anyone know of a fix?

[dejan.kitic]

Originally Posted by jojohippo

tscheez, I've noticed that too. anyone know of a fix?

Thanks to Bob Kashani, there is solution:
Install package from here, and touchpad will work just peachy.

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bobk/packages/

This resolves both tapping and suspend/resume problem, taken from
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439386

Cheers D

[jojohippo]

Thansk dejan.kitic, touchpad works just peachy =)

[MrGroover]

Originally Posted by jojohippo

You have to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add 'psmouse.proto=imps' to the line that begins with kernel.

As long as the i810 driver isn't working in X, I don't want to use a xorg.conf file, because for me, it works better without that file. But I have an idea how to work out the problem, no xorg.conf file present and the still having the ability to configure the synaptics touchpad. There is a tool called synclient (its in the repos) and with this tool, one can adjust the parameters of the Synaptics without editing the xorg.conf file and without restarting X. My idea is to write a basic script that is called when X starts and this script will set the parameters for the touchpad as I want to have them.
I'll just have to find out, how to tell xorg that a synaptics touchpad is present and not a generic ps2 mouse or something. I haven't look what X detects without the config file... Maybe your hint with the parameter in the menu.lst file is a good starting point...

[BobNutfield]

[QUOTE]Thanks to Bob Kashani, there is solution:
Install package from here, and touchpad will work just peachy.

After weeks of trying to get the touchpad working, you link to the driver solved it. Thank you very much.

Bob

[negativeEntropy]

How would I go about installing this new driver if I have a previous one already installed? Do I need to disable the old one first? Can I just rpm -e it?

I tried using rpm -ivh synaptics-0.14.6-8.1.fc9.i386.rpm, but its getting conflicts from the 0.14.6-7.fc9.i386 version. I also installed gsynaptics for a gui, which I'm not sure if it needs to be removed as well.

[djselbeck]

Have you tried "rpm -Uvh" ? If this also does not work you could force rpm with the "--force" option

[negativeEntropy]

rpm -Uvh did it for me. Thanks!!!