Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Do not use synaptics extensions by default | From | Peter Osterlund <> | Date | 10 Jan 2004 21:29:59 +0100 |
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"Marcel J.E. Mol" <marcel@mesa.nl> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 02:28:49PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Saturday 10 January 2004 12:59 pm, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > ..aka "make synaptics touchpad usable in 2.6.1" -- synaptics support > > > is not really suitable to be enabled by default. You can not click by > > > tapping the touchpad (well, unless you have very new X with right > > > configuration, but than you can't go back to 2.4), > > > > It is my understanding that by setting "Protocol" to "auto-dev" and > > "Device" to "/dev/psaux" you can freely switch between 2.4 and 2.5. > > I work with this setting for a couple of weeks now switching between 2.4 > and 2.6. The touchpad works quite well in X. (Dell inspiron 8000). > I only notice I have to tap harder to get a click.
You can adjust the sensitivity by changing the FingerLow and FingerHigh XFree86 driver parameters. They control how much finger pressure is needed before it counts as a touch. (There are two parameters to get a hysteresis effect.)
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