Instantaneous touchpad 'tap' response problem
Posts: 3
I just switched to SimplyMepis6 .5 Beta 5 as an alternative to Kubuntu and noticed that the tap response was 'instantaneous' after fresh install.
I looked into /etc/X11/xorg.conf
And noticed that with the following default settings, tapping is really fast, instantaneous.
Orange means the text to take notice of.
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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
#commented stuff....
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
#commented stuff...
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "PS/2 Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection
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That's all good but touch-scrolling doesn't work, 'double-click drag' doesn't work and 2 or 3 finger tap function cannot be set.
Then I start adding all the 'synaptics' stuff (blue means newly added) that people usually have, and I used to have on Ubuntu. See below:
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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
#commented stuff....
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Touchpad" "AlwaysCore"
#commented stuff...
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
#Option "SHMConfig" "on" #uncomment this line if u want to use qsynaptics/ksynaptics/gsynaptics
EndSection
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After I add the change, I ctrl+alt+backspace.
With the above setting, after tapping, it takes a bit less than a second to respond (which I used to put up with & thought it was normal). Installing qsynaptics and ksynaptics makes no difference in the speed.
The difference is noticeable with InputDevice "Touchpad" "AlwaysCore" (very fast) and without it (slower).
So the question is :
Why is tapping so slow with synaptics loaded? Is there a way to make it faster?
Is there a way to enable scrolling Without synaptics loaded? (maybe enable 2 finger tap settings as well would be a great bonus)
In the Gentoo wiki (referenced below), I followed every step even adding all the extra options (maxtaptime,etc.) under Section "InputDevice". Maybe changing one or two values of the options will make things faster?
Anyway, I have come to believe it is Synaptics itself which makes tap slower. Prove me wrong please.
I would like to know also, if Ubuntu users were to remove InputDevice "Touchpad" "AlwaysCore" and add the InputDevice "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer" , whether that makes a great speed increase in tapping.
Of course by simply pressing the left/right button next to the touchpad is always very responsive. So this really is about just 'tapping'.
Hope you can help,
Thank you
I referenced from these:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad
But how snappy?
Posts: 3
How snappy is your tap response? I'm talking like ZERO microsecond wait. Not a nano second more. I'm not talking fast really, im talking INSTANT! No exaggeration.
Anyway may I take a look at your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file?
Thank you
I am having a similar
Posts: 48
I am having a similar problem, but I want to disable tapping. I have enbled Synaptics with x-assistant and unchecked tapping, but it doesn't matter. I have # out maxtaptime and maxtapmove, but no good. I have added taptime=0, but no good. Ksynaptics doesn't seem to control anything.
Please Restrict Yourself To A Single Thread
Posts: 5513
tigreseis, I know you are wanting to get a solution to your problem. You have opened up multiple threads and we have recommended that you STICK WITH ONE THREAD. carlops is now helping with the issue here:
http://www.mepis.org/node/13457
as you know. Please restrict yourself to that thread for your questions and answers. Otherwise you are simply cluttering up the forum.
Thank you.
Jon
No computer is magic, no operating system is magic, no website is magic. They all require human interaction, thought, and responsibility to work.
Warren has updated the
Posts: 190
Warren has updated the Synaptics driver to 14.6 - the latest version available - be interesting to hear how well everyone is getting on with this new driver - and new section in Xorg.conf - it works fine on my laptop - tapping/virtual scrolling/scroll button, but on another machine the tp is really slow (but it isn't a Mepis pc - just has same driver/xorg.conf entry)...