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  1. Bug #1075996
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1075996

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Dave Vree (hdave) wrote :

Running an Asus K55a here with the same Elan clickpad. For me, right click and some other things where broken until I put the following into the (new) xorg.conf file. Now everthing works except this issue.

Section "InputClass"
 Identifier "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"
 MatchProduct "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"
 MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
 Driver "synaptics"
 Option "TapButton1" "1"
 Option "TapButton2" "3"
 Option "TapButton3" "2"
 Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
 Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1"
 Option "CoastingSpeed" "10"
 Option "EdgeMotionMinZ" "30"
 Option "EdgeMotionMaxZ" "40"
 Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "100"
 Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "400"
 Option "FingerLow" "9"
 Option "FingerHigh" "12"
 Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "0"
 Option "ClickPad" "True"
 Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection

I think what is needed is to set the property "AreaBottomEdge" to some value so that the lower portion of the touchpad surface is disabled with regard to mouse pointer movement.