Bugzilla – Bug 116181
Alps touchpad does not behave as expected
Last modified: 2005-11-07 18:15:34 UTC
Compaq R3120 AMD 64 3000, 1GB memory, Alps touchpad. OpenSuSE 10.0 RC1 x86_64 In SuSE 9.3 Pro, Alps touch pad functioned correctly when using taps or buttons. In the OpenSuSE Betas, 2-4 and RC1, the Alps expected behavior is not working. 1) puting the pointer over any object (using KDE) and single tap. Nothing occurs until the pointer is moved slightly. Then the 'button push' is registerd and the action occurs. 2) put pointer on the title bar of a window and click with left botton to bring up the move arrow. Nothing happens. If you click the lb once, then repeat again slowly, it may be seen. 3) open web browser. Input any thing for a web page. Then try using the left button and highligh the text. The majority of the time, only the 'bar' moves and the text is not highlighted.
Confirmed. Update 9.3 to 10.0 RC1 on a laptop, with a Synaptics Touchpad, and tapping does not work any more. I installed KSynaptics to configure this but this did not help.
I loaded 10.0 RC1 i386 on a spare drive on the R3120. The Alps touch pad behaved correctly. None of the problems that I reported with the x86_64 version were found. This problem appears to be only in the x86_64 code base.> In SuSE 9.3 Pro, Alps touch pad functioned correctly when using taps or buttons. > In the OpenSuSE Betas, 2-4 and RC1, the Alps expected behavior is not working. > > 1) puting the pointer over any object (using KDE) and single tap. Nothing > occurs until the pointer is moved slightly. Then the 'button push' is registerd > and the action occurs. > > 2) put pointer on the title bar of a window and click with left botton to bring > up the move arrow. Nothing happens. If you click the lb once, then repeat > again slowly, it may be seen. > > 3) open web browser. Input any thing for a web page. Then try using the left > button and highligh the text. The majority of the time, only the 'bar' moves > and the text is not highlighted.
This seems to be a "device" problem and not usability & design. Mobile devices?
I see the same problem here on a Compaq R3000. I have 9.2 and 10.0 RC1 installed on the same box, and while the tab works fine in 9.2, it very problematic in 10. I experience the same problems as mentioned above. At times, clicking multiple times in the title bar, I can get the click through so that I can move the window. Same click problem makes it hard to resizing windows. As an additional feature request, it would be nice to have the dimension configurable in YaST. The out of the box configuration was almost unusable, with the mouse moving only a small fraction of the screen size, after a full pass on the touchpad. It required "hacking" xorg.conf to get the mouse movement to be tolerable.
I am also seeing this with 10.0 RC1 x86_64. It worked fine in 9.3. I noticed that in the mouse test area in Sax, most of the time a single click and release was recognized as just a click. When i click the button, it showed nothing, and when I released the button, it registered it as the button being clicked down.
Installed the latest update for Synaptics and XOrg, v 0.14.4 (synaptics-0.14.4). This has fixes for X86_64 and replaces the synaptic_drv.o in the X11R6 directory. Initial testing shows that this appears to fix the problems. Others should test this to see if it solves their problem.
This seems to work ok on my system. Thanks!
from the changelog of the synaptics driver version 0.14.4: - Fixed some long vs int inconsistencies to make the driver work correctly on 64 bit machines. so this might actually be the right thing to do.
Created attachment 56595 [details] only the int-vs-long fixes from 0.14.4 these are the int-vs-long fixes extracted from the 0.14.3-0.14.4 diff. It compiles, but i have not tested it.
updated to 0.14.4 for 10.1 Alpha3.