Description of problem: There is no support for multitouch gestures (two finger scroll, etc...) with the Synaptics trackpad in the HP G62. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Synaptics Version 1 Firmware 7.4 How reproducible: Will not work, tried many configuration settings. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use newer laptop with newer Synaptics trackpad 2. Try to enable two finger scroll/two finger tap right click 3. No positive results, just very jumpy cursor Actual results: Jumpy cursor, no two finger scroll. Vertical scroll zone works fine, but not multiple fingers. Expected results: Two finger scroll, two finger tap for right click, etc... Additional info:
please attach your xorg.log or the evtest output for the device.
Created attachment 475546 [details] smolt profile of affected HP tm2t tablet PC
Created attachment 475547 [details] xorg.log of affected HP tm2t
These all seem to be either referencing the same issue, or very closely related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/308191 https://bugs.freedesktop.org//show_bug.cgi?id=21614 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16041 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/654716 There are also plenty of threads on the Ubunut and Fedora forums regarding this (or very similar) issue. To sum up the issues as I'm experiencing them: - There is no "right click". All taps or hard presses on the pad (even in the bottom right area) are registered as left clicks. In rare cases if tapping quickly with two fingers, it will randomly register a right click. - With one finger on the pad, if a second finger is introduced to the pad, the mouse cursor goes crazy and jumps around the screen. This specific pad does support multi-touch, but from what I understand there are touchpads affected by this that are single touch. - My touchpad has a little "hot area" at the top left of the pad where you're supposed to be able to double tap quickly to toggle the touchpad on and off. When it's off, an orange LED lights up where you tapped in the corner to indicate the status. This is not working at all. This is likely a separate, unrelated issue, but worth mentioning nonetheless. Based on my skimming of the file bugs and patch submitted to the issue on freedesktop.org, it seems like most people affected by this bug are satisfied with the patched Xorg Synaptics driver which introduces the JumpyCursorThreshold configuration option. I've read that this fix has been rolled out with updates at least on Ubuntu and Arch (in Arch's extras repo), though none of the bugs have been marked as fixed or closed.
Also, I believe https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639516 to be a duplicate of this bug.
Created attachment 475712 [details] Smolt profile for affected HP dm4t
Created attachment 475713 [details] xorg.log for affected HP dm4t
Comment #4 describes the problem correctly. Under Fedora 13 the touchpad worked correctly, both left and right mouse clicks operated as expected. The ability to turn on and off the touchpad via the "hot area" has never worked and missed terribly.
Not that this is very acceptable, but I've isolated how to get the two-finger right click to work more reliably. It has to do with how close your two fingers are together when you tap. I've found if I have my fingers as close together as I can get them, it seems to work most of the time, without causing the mouse to jump like crazy. However, those with larger fingers would still definitely have problems right clicking this way, so I would not consider it an acceptable solution or workaround. Not to mention, any hard press (where it physically *clicks*) on the pad, regardless of position (in designated right or left areas), is always registered as a left click.
Created attachment 476440 [details] evtest for multitouch on HP tm2t evtest output when introducing a second finger to the touchpad on an HP tm2t, resulting in the cursor jumping around the screen.
Created attachment 476443 [details] evtest for "hard press" right click on HP tm2t evtest output from an HP tm2t while attempting to right click by pressing on the designated right click area on the pad (pressing as in you hear/feel the click, not tapping).
I'd like to add that, though this bug is filed under F13, F14 is still very much affected by this bug. Perhaps it may be worth updating the version on this bug to 14. Also, from what I can tell, it appears that more and more new laptops (especailly HP) are being shipped with this affected "SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad". That, plus the frequency this issue has been reported, confirmed, and in some cases, resolved in various distro bug trackers and forums deserves this bug at least a second look, in my opinion. If there's any additional information or testing that would help get this resolved, please don't hesitate. I'm sure I'm not the only one that's eager to see this one resolved.
Some problems with my HP Pavilion DV7-4050ez. The bug still exist in Fedora 15 Alpha 1. How can it be that Archlinux, Gentoo, Ubuntu etc. have a patch but not Fedora/Red Hat? Pls, fix it :)
Still a problem in F14 kernel 2.6.35.11 installed in an HP dv5 2048la everything works but when trying to select text the cursor jumps all over the screen and still no right click.
Bug still exist in Fedora 15 FINAL!!!
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are all these touchpad clickpads? if so - well, we don't have clickpad support upstream yet. there are patches floating around but no-one ever finished them off (and they had some rather dubious legality when they first appeared). which may explain why other distros have patches but we don't.
I'm not sure what clickpad is. But I'm sure that device worked as expected under Fedora 13. I've added myself to CC list of this issue because comment #4 fits what I'm experiencing AFTER upgrading my notebook from Fedora 13 to Fedora 14. And problem persits also after upgrade to Fedora 15. And yes, I do have a clickpad in my HP ProBook 4520s: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/au/en/sm/WF05a/321957-321957-64295-3955552-3955552-4145198.html
I can also confirm that I still have this issue with F15 on a New HP Envy 2002ea Laptop :-(
Yeah, F13 did work but 14/15 doesn't work -.-' Btw. Gentoo, Arch and Ubuntu have a patch for xf86-input-synaptics https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339007
Hello guys, pretty new to fedora as I've been using Ubuntu for the past 3.5 years. I started off with F15 a couple months back and my synaptics touchpad worked fine without the requirement of any setting or tweak whatsoeve - including two-finger scroll and so on (which never happened to me in ubuntu btw). I did a clean install of F16 yesterday to find that the two finger scroll option and side scrolling are not working anymore. I do have a snippet that I run on startup to correct the issue: basically the sensor input value by default is way to high to oallow any actual sensing from the pad. can this be fixed asap? Here's my snippet - feel free to run it through terminal and post your feedback!: xinput --set-prop --type=int --format=32 "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Two-Finger Pressure" 10
As said Nathanel Titane, the solution is configure the "Two-Finger Pressure" option of the Synaptics. Personally, I have execute the command: xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Two-Finger Pressure" 32 10 Et hop, all is OK. Please, change the default config of the synaptic driver.
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Please can someone change this to F16 or rawhide, as this still occurs for me on F16 and I see no reason to think it's been addressed?
changed to F16. F17 and later have clickpad support, so it's likely fixed there. Note that I've changed the release but don't expect this to get fixed anytime soon, it requires backports of the driver that I don't have the time for atm.
For me, the touchpad continue to don't have multi-touch support.
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