Synaptics Multitouch Support Missing in Linux
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Linux |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Open Input Framework |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have some problems with the Synaptics touchpad on my HP tm2 laptop.
I'm trying to simply test the two finger scrolling on last Maverick on my HP tm2 2000 laptop but when I run
gesturetest 0x4c000be 0 0xfff
or the relative for root window got from (xwininfo -root | grep "Window id" | awk '{print $4}' )
gesturetest 0xaa 0 0xfff
I always can't get any output
Also if I'm running
synclient -m 100
I got this:
Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?
Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?
Can SHMConfig could be a problem?
Here is my complete environment:
I have the following:
HP tm2 1110eg
Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick
Installed utouch package at last release
Installed python-pymt package
This command, sudo lsinput, returns: "/dev/input/event0 protocol version mismatch (expected 65536, got 65537)".
I tried also
sudo gesturetest 0xaa 0 0xfff
But I have no output
If I run evtest, I have this kind of output
# evtest /dev/input/event9
Input driver version is 1.0.1
Input device ID: bus 0x11 vendor 0x2 product 0x1 version 0x0
Input device name: "PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
Supported events:
Event type 0 (Sync)
Event type 1 (Key)
Event code 272 (LeftBtn)
Event code 273 (RightBtn)
Event code 274 (MiddleBtn)
Event type 2 (Relative)
Event code 0 (X)
Event code 1 (Y)
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
Event: time 1283796048.180071, type 2 (Relative), code 0 (X), value 2
Event: time 1283796048.180076, type 2 (Relative), code 1 (Y), value -2
Event: time 1283796048.180077, -------------- Report Sync ------------
Event: time 1283796048.224217, type 2 (Relative), code 0 (X), value 2
Event: time 1283796048.224225, type 2 (Relative), code 1 (Y), value -8
Event: time 1283796048.224227, -------------- Report Sync ------------
Event: time 1283796048.247815, type 2 (Relative), code 0 (X), value 2
Event: time 1283796048.247827, type 2 (Relative), code 1 (Y), value -12
....
On Windows 7 the Synaptics driver is able to recognize the multitouch feature of the touchpad, so it might be a driver problem... Is that possible?
Changed in utouch: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
I think Henrik has made some progress here with his synaptic and wacom work. I'll let him pick this up once his load from beta-freeze lightens up.