multi-touch and two finger scrolling don't work on eeepc 1005pe

[Henrique Ferreiro]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

Two finger scrolling is greyed out in gnome-mouse-properties. If I try to use two-finger click or three-finger to perform right or middle button clicks, it doesn't work.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.2.2-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 6 18:18:58 2010
DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No existe el fichero ó directorio
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429.4)
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer INC. 1005PE
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=4e8b555f-a484-4916-b8f6-7b0367b5a4e3 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=gl_ES:gl:es_ES:es:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=gl_ES.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
dmi.bios.date: 04/29/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1103
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: 1005P
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: x.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0x00000000
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.chassis.version: x.x
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1103:bd04/29/2010:svnASUSTeKComputerINC.:pn1005PE:pvrx.x:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rn1005P:rvrx.xx:cvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:ct10:cvrx.x:
dmi.product.name: 1005PE
dmi.product.version: x.x
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No existe el fichero ó directorio
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.32-22-generic

[Henrique Ferreiro (henrique-ferreiro)]

The workaround from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/462166/comments/4 doesn't work for me, so this must be a different kind of bug.

[John Baptist (jepst79)]

@Henrqiue: Can you be more specific than saying "it doesn't work"? For example, does the gnome-mouse-properties GUI show that two-fingered scrolling has been selected, or not?

Also, please try saving the attached file as 11-touchpad.conf into your /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory, in addition to running the command from the other bug, and then rebooting. Now does it work? Can you provide us with your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file after making these changes? Also, please provide the output of the "synclient -l" command after making these changes. Thanks.

[Henrique Ferreiro (henrique-ferreiro)]

I meant two finger scrolling doesn't work. The option appeared selected but greyed out.

Using you configuration it works, but, as I understand it, it does it by emulation, not by using the hardware capabilities. In fact, setting TapButton3 doesn't make three finger tap work.