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July 5th, 2008 17:00
XPS 1530 with Ubuntu - touchpad not recognized
Hi All,
I got my dell XPS 1530 and installed ubuntu 8.04 on a empty partition. Everything is working fine except the touchpad. The touchpad is really annoying and I am not able to configure it.
I tried to set SHMConfig to "on" and use synclient. However it keeps saying
Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?
Then I looked into /var/log/Xorg.0.org to see the following:
(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.6 (1406)
touchpad no synaptics event device found (checked 21 nodes)
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
(**) Option "SHMConfig" "true"
(**) Option "LeftEdge" "130"
(**) Option "RightEdge" "840"
(**) Option "TopEdge" "130"
(**) Option "BottomEdge" "640"
(**) Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
(**) Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
(**) Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"
(**) Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"
(**) Option "FingerLow" "7"
(**) Option "FingerHigh" "8"
(**) Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
(**) Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
(**) Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"
(**) Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
(**) Option "TouchpadOff" "1"
(**) Option "CircularScrolling" "1"
(**) Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
(EE) touchpad no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device
(EE) touchpad Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "touchpad"
(II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"
cat /proc/bus/input/devices does not show the Alps Touchpad.
Any idea what is happening here...
PhillyFloyd
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July 9th, 2008 09:00
Try changing:
Option "TouchpadOff" "1"
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to read
Option "TouchpadOff" "0"
or just remove the option altogether
A boolean value of "1" means TRUE, "0" denotes FALSE --> thus setting TouchpadOff to 1 in essence is saying to disable the touchpad. Set it to "0" or just remove the line, default should be enabled.
You will have to restart X via CNTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE, reboot, init 3;init 5, or logging out if restartX is a logout option
irfanahmed
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July 9th, 2008 18:00
I did try that several times but none of it works.
Is it possible to disable/kill the touchpad altogether. I use a mouse and do not want the touchpad at all.
Is it possible to make the computer think that there is no such device at all.