The touchpad works very bad

[Airam RR]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

The HP Envy touchpad has several errors.
 1) I can't do right click with the touchpad.
 2) The cursor jumps over the screen.
 3) I can't drag & drop or select something.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb 16 22:57:52 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_ES.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center

[Airam RR (airamrguezrivero)]

This bug is still present in Ubuntu Natty.

[Airam RR (airamrguezrivero)]

In Ubuntu 11.04 Natty (final version) it seems that the cursor doesn't make jumps over the screen as in Maverick, but,

1) The right click doesn't work. Nothing happens when I press the right click.
2) I can't drag and drop.

[Airam RR (airamrguezrivero)]

With the deb above I can do right click correctly, but I cant drag and drop or select a text.

[Airam RR (airamrguezrivero)]

I adapted some patches from Suse to Ubuntu.

 1) Enable right click.
 2) Switch on LED light.

Yo can download them from: http://airam.me

[Airam RR (airamrguezrivero)]

Ok, I've added a new patch and now I can drag and drop.
I've put all the files in http://airam.me

[Airam RR (airamrguezrivero)]

I'm feeling a bit alone here ...

[Airam RR (airamrguezrivero)]

By the way, the real affected package is xserver-xorg-input-synaptics. I can't modify my post...

[Airam RR (airamrguezrivero)]

More info:

$ dmesg | grep -i synaptics
[ 17.639725] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.4, id: 0x1e0b1, caps: 0xd04773/0xe40000/0x5a0400
[ 17.639732] synaptics: support LED control
[ 17.639795] Registered led device: psmouse::synaptics
[ 17.714812] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input8

[Reinhard (reinhard-fink)]

Hallo Airam,

Thanks for your help in "my" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/762768.

I sympathize with your feeling "I'm feeling a bit alone here ...".

May be we are spread over to many bugs?

I still hope that the 8 month old SuSE fixes will find a way into the normal distribution.

For the moment I will use the normal package with 2 changes in my parameters:

AreaBottomEdge=4331 (instead =0)
Important: to make text-selection possible

TopEdge = 0 (instead=1627)
just improves usability: cursor moves, even if the finger is at the top of cklickpad.

It looks like, if there is no major strategy for that Clickpad - stuff, which gets quit complex with all these features and options.

greetings
reinhard

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

(Part of the reason for lack of attention on this bug may be due to the poor title of the bug...)

[Airam RR (airamrguezrivero)]

Sorry about that Bryce Harrington.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Also, you need to provide various standard files when reporting X bugs. Please run 'apport-collect 720389' to attach these; the bug is not actionable as it stands.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Actually, nevermind, I think the patches themselves are sufficient in this case.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

In 129-clickpad-threshold.patch I notice your patch reverses a chunk that the opensuse patch was removing. This bit of code:

@@ -524,6 +512,9 @@

     pars->area_top_edge = set_percent_option(opts, "AreaTopEdge", height, priv->miny);
     pars->area_bottom_edge = set_percent_option(opts, "AreaBottomEdge", height, priv->miny);
+ /* in clickpad mode, we don't want to sense the button area as default */
+ if (pars->area_bottom_edge == 0 && priv->is_clickpad)
+ pars->area_bottom_edge = b;
     pars->area_left_edge = set_percent_option(opts, "AreaLeftEdge", width, priv->minx);
     pars->area_right_edge = set_percent_option(opts, "AreaRightEdge", width, priv->minx);

I'm wondering if this was just an oversight, or if it's actually something you found was necessary to add? Can you explain why this chunk is being added in your patch? I'm going to omit it for now.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

For reference the opensuse patches are here:

 https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=xorg-x11-driver-input&project=X11%3AXOrg&rev=17f381a34750c8d6634d00015d210d0c

The patches were proposed upstream and received discussion here:

 http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-October/thread.html#14005

It appears that most of these patches have not gone upstream but are being discussed.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Airam, the patches you posted don't seem to successfully patch against -synaptics from natty. They look like they could be tricky to backport and a good bit of work to maintain locally, so I'd like to hold off on incorporating them for the time being and see if they get accepted upstream. I'll leave this bug report open so we can track it.

If you get time to fix up the patches (and especially if you're willing to maintain them from now until they get taken upstream) we can take another look.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I'm going to close out the g-c-c task for now; it may be a while before the X support is included. Once that's done I'd recommend filing a new bug for g-c-c.

[Bhaveek Desai (bhaveekdesai)]

Same issue on Lenovo 3000N100

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Airam RR, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p xserver-xorg-input-synaptics REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER

Please note, given that the information from the prior release is already available, doing this on a release prior to the development one would not be helpful.

Thank you for your understanding.

Helpful bug reporting tips:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]