Touchpad options do not work

Dear,

my touchpad didn't work for 2 days, after installing and removing the synaptics driver(yes is this order, kinda strange, i know), it worked again. But i don't seem to be able to scroll, not in openoffice3.0, not in firefox3.1b and not in acrobat pdf viewer.

it seems to be a missing value in my xorg.conf file, there is no reference to an axxis of some kind.

Code:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerFlags"
	Option "DontZap" "yes"
	Option "DontVTSwitch" "yes"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Synaptics Mouse" "AlwaysCore"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "be"
        Option      "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier "Synaptics Mouse"
        Driver     "synaptics"
        Option     "Device" "/dev/psaux"
        Option     "Protocol" "auto-dev"
	Option	   "LeftEdge"  "1700"
  	Option	"RightEdge"     "5300"
  	Option	"TopEdge"       "1700"
  	Option	"BottomEdge"    "4200"
  	Option	"FingerLow"	"25"
  	Option	"FingerHigh"	"30"
  	Option	"MaxTapTime"	"180"
  	Option	"MaxTapMove"	"220"
  	Option	"VertScrollDelta" "100"
  	Option	"MinSpeed"	"0.09"
  	Option	"MaxSpeed"	"0.18"
  	Option	"AccelFactor"	"0.0015"
  	Option	"SHMConfig"	"on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier  "Monitor0"
	Modeline  "1024x600" 48.96 1024 1064 1168 1312 600 601 604 622 -HSync +VSync
#	Option	"Above"	"Monitor1"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "intel"
#	Option      "monitor-LVDS" "Monitor0"
#	Option	    "monitor-VGA" "Monitor1"
	Option	    "Clone" "true"
	Option	"MonitorLayout"	"LVDS,VGA"
	BusID	"PCI:0:2:0"
#	Screen	0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor	    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1024x600" "800x600" "640x480"
         Virtual 1024 768
	EndSubSection
EndSection

anyone an idea if i should install the synaptic driver, or maybe edit xorg.conf, other ideas?

thx mates

 

Re: Scrolling with touchpad does not work

ideas are welcome ...

 

Re: Scrolling with touchpad does not work

Is "Enable vertical scrolling" checked in Touchpad Preferences?

Cheers.

 

Re: Scrolling with touchpad does not work

gives an error, saying i should enable SHMconfig:true. It was "on", i set it to "true" and rebooted. But to no avail, trying to install the gsynaptics driver now

[edited] installing the synaptics driver seemed to have fixed my scrolling problem. But i am unable to open the touchpad settings. I'll try to change xorg.conf back to default

[edited2] put SHMconfig back to "on", and restarted just to be sure. but sadly, cannot access the touchpad config utility. It pop's up for less then a second and then disappears.
I looked at the running processes with "ps -u user", but i didn't see the proces. Maybe it gets killed when it's executed, an adaption by acer maybe?

 

Re: Scrolling with touchpad does not work

does anyone have an idea?

 

pretty please?

 

Re: Scrolling with touchpad does not work

So if you run gsynaptics in a terminal, what happens?

Cheers.

 

Code:

[user@localhost ~]$ gsynaptics

** (gsynaptics:2889): WARNING **: Using synclient

(gsynaptics:2889): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gsynaptics:2889): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gsynaptics:2889): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_toggle_button_set_active: assertion `GTK_IS_TOGGLE_BUTTON (toggle_button)' failed

(gsynaptics:2889): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_range_set_value: assertion `GTK_IS_RANGE (range)' failed

(gsynaptics:2889): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gsynaptics:2889): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gsynaptics:2889): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_range_set_value: assertion `GTK_IS_RANGE (range)' failed

(gsynaptics:2889): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gsynaptics:2889): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gsynaptics:2889): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_range_set_value: assertion `GTK_IS_RANGE (range)' failed

(gsynaptics:2889): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gsynaptics:2889): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
Segmentation fault

that's what i get in terminal. To me it's gibberish. what do you guys think?

 

Most of those failed errors are normal behavior. It's the seg fault at the end that is the real problem. This can happen when the driver won't work with the kernel you're running. So just to try and dig further into this problem, post the results of this, so we can see if the drivers are different between your and my system:

ls -l /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so

Cheers.

 

here is the uotput of yur command

Code:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42306 2008-08-30 06:31 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so

thx for the help, my touchpad works, but the options should work to, i want the whole thing ^^

 

Here's mine.

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42773 2008-03-27 08:06 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so

You might try to rename yours and then replace it with mine and see if it fixes things. Of course, unzip it before copying over to that directory. Reboot when it's there, so that the module is loaded. No guarantees this will be the solution. Use at your own risk!

Here's a link to the download:

synaptics_drv.so.zip

Cheers.

 

lols, that sounds a bit shabby ^^

but offcourse, i tryed it

Code:

[user@localhost ~]$ ls -l /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 42773 2008-12-09 04:03 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
[user@localhost ~]$ gsynaptics

** (gsynaptics:3098): WARNING **: Using synclient

(gsynaptics:3098): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gsynaptics:3098): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gsynaptics:3098): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_toggle_button_set_active: assertion `GTK_IS_TOGGLE_BUTTON (toggle_button)' failed

(gsynaptics:3098): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_range_set_value: assertion `GTK_IS_RANGE (range)' failed

(gsynaptics:3098): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gsynaptics:3098): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gsynaptics:3098): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_range_set_value: assertion `GTK_IS_RANGE (range)' failed

(gsynaptics:3098): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gsynaptics:3098): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gsynaptics:3098): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_range_set_value: assertion `GTK_IS_RANGE (range)' failed

(gsynaptics:3098): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gsynaptics:3098): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
Segmentation fault
[user@localhost ~]$ 

blah blah! i'm an error !

maybe this one is different to:

Code:

[user@localhost ~]$ ls -l /usr/bin/gsynaptics*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31428 2008-07-24 14:04 /usr/bin/gsynaptics
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20544 2008-07-24 14:04 /usr/bin/gsynaptics-init
[user@localhost ~]$ 

let me know if that's a possible reason for the error

 

timeeeee is on my side, yes it is, yes it is, ...

come on guys and gals, someone should have an idea of how to solve this one, gimme a hand plz

 

so, nobody is able to help me ?

 

The functionality of my touchpad deteriorates rapidly after startup and quickly makes the editors unusable when the slightest touch of the pad causes the cursor to jump around erratically all over the whole document. This is clearly a warranty issue that normally needs to be sorted out with the vendor. The vendor sends it up the (international!) distribution path until it arrives at a level capable of resolving it. This is the conventional approach. A more contemporary approach, both quicker and more economical, is to resolve it on this forum with the participation of Acer. After all, replacements for defective components are mostly of the downloadable kind. So I have been wondering if Acer was a registered member. If they aren't they should be in their own interest. Such a forum is a formidable product-testing lab that doesn't cost them a cent. Also, the product appears to be in an early release stage and has a number of rough spots in need of smoothing. Perhaps the manager of the forum might reserve a separate area "Questions for Acer".

Frederic

 

That is an excellent point. I think that it would definitely be in Acer's interest to provide a presence on this board.

 

If you'd bother reading this forum, you'd see that it's easy to run a utility program that will automatically turn off the touchpad while you're typing and have it come back on a couple seconds after you've stop typing. Personally, I'm not aware of any inherent problems with the touchpad. So much for this issue being a "warranty question".

Cheers.

 

could this topic be closed, there is no help coming apparently

 

Although I've got Linpus on my AA1, so I can't do much more than guess.
Guess #1: You've got some updated X components running that are incompatible with others.
Guess #2: You've got a messed up config file (maybe /etc/X11/xorg.conf)

 

Re: Touchpad

Hi everyOne!!
I am a happy owner of an AAO laptop but.........after using the laptop for 2-3hrs suddenly touchpad stopped working.I`ve checked everything, every settings (Fn+F7) nothing solved the problem.Buttons are OK. Actually it works for the first 30-40sec. but when conn.manager starts it stops working.
Can someone help me???
Thanks