Re: synaptics touchpad doesn't click

[Dmitry Torokhov]

Hi Alex,

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 06:48:28PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
> 
> I just got a shiny new piece of hardware (HP Envy 15) with a
> Synaptics touchpad, and I can't seem to make the touchpad work
> correctly.  In this version of the touchpad, there are actually
> two physical buttons underneath the pad. In essence, this is a
> touchpad that you can click too.
> 
> I can't get the clicking to work. Of course, I can tap to click,
> but lacking access to the physical buttons means that I can't
> right-click.
> 
> Currently, I'm not sure if this is a driver issue or perhaps
> something higher up the stack, perhaps in X or maybe pilot error.
> ;)
> 
> Distro is Ubuntu Karmic, kernel is latest upstream last pulled on
> 13 Dec.
> 
> Would like some pointers on how to get started debugging.
> 
> Thanks,
> /ac
> 
> dmesg snip:
>  Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
>  brd: module loaded
>  loop: module loaded
>  input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input3
>  [...]
>  Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.4, id: 0x1e0b1, caps: 0xd04771/0xe40000
>  input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input10
> 

Hmm, that's the new Synaptics "clickpad"... Takashi Iwai just posted a
coupleof patches for it on the input mailing list.

-- 
Dmitry
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