Bugzilla – Bug 540591
eeePC 1000 Touchpad (Elantech) Acts Erratically
Last modified: 2009-09-23 00:10:05 UTC
Created attachment 319005 [details] xorg.conf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090909 SUSE/3.5.3-1.1 Firefox/3.5.3 Since updating to M7, the touchpad on my eeePC 1000 has been acting erratically. According to the X.org log, it's in "absolute" mode. This might be fine, but there are 3 problems: - Acceleration is applied, counteracting the absolute positioning, so the pointer jumps around a lot as I tap and it's impossible to predict where the pointer will end up after I move and attempt to move again - The granularity is far too coarse. It's very difficult to place the pointer at a precise spot to be able to click hyperlinks, scroll buttons, and other small controls. Window resizes and selections are often impossible - All of the tap/scroll features are gone. I'm happy to see tap-click gone, but I miss scrolling Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 319006 [details] xorg log
Various issues here. - You're reporting that you would be using openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 7, but you've attached a Xserver logfile for Moblin. Please clarify, what you've installed. - Neither Moblin nor openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 7 should use xorg.conf any longer. Created by SaX2? Please remove it. - synaptics driver is not loaded. Support still missing in kernel? Verify with zcat /proc/config.gz | grep CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_ELANTECH
I bet this is missing in the RPM changelog of your kernel: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Sep 10 17:19:17 CEST 2009 - gregkh@suse.de - Update config files. CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_ELANTECH=y CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_TOUCHKIT=y (bnc#525607)
Ah. I guess I had Moblin repos in my zypper repo list. I removed them and will update. xorg.conf is deprecated? Is this documented anywhere? I can't find anything on en.opensuse.org. As for the driver: # zgrep -e CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_ELANTECH -e CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_TOUCHKIT /proc/config.gz CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_ELANTECH=y CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_TOUCHKIT=y The touchpad was working fine in previous milestones.
(In reply to comment #4) > Ah. I guess I had Moblin repos in my zypper repo list. I removed them and will > update. Ok. I understand. Mixing products is not recommended though. And it's always hard to investigate any issues then for us! > xorg.conf is deprecated? Is this documented anywhere? I can't find anything on > en.opensuse.org. Work in progress. It will be documented in our manual and in the release notes. > As for the driver: > > # zgrep -e CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_ELANTECH -e CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_TOUCHKIT > /proc/config.gz > CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_ELANTECH=y > CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_TOUCHKIT=y Seems to be a very recent kernel (newer than Milestone 7). Update to latest xorg-x11-driver-input package from X11:XOrg buildservice repo. > The touchpad was working fine in previous milestones. This cannot be. It has been fixed in kernel *after* Milestone 7.
Let's assume this is a dup. Otherwise please reopen if the issue remains in Milestone 8. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 525607 ***
(In reply to comment #5) > (In reply to comment #4) > > Ah. I guess I had Moblin repos in my zypper repo list. I removed them and will > > update. > > Ok. I understand. Mixing products is not recommended though. And it's always > hard to investigate any issues then for us! I forgot it was there. Sorry about that. > > # zgrep -e CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_ELANTECH -e CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_TOUCHKIT > > /proc/config.gz > > CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_ELANTECH=y > > CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_TOUCHKIT=y > > Seems to be a very recent kernel (newer than Milestone 7). Update to latest > xorg-x11-driver-input package from X11:XOrg buildservice repo. Ok, I now have kernel-default-2.6.31-8.2.i586 from current Factory and xorg-x11-driver-input-7.4-49.1.i586 from X11:XOrg. The mouse is still in absolute mode and acting funny. > > The touchpad was working fine in previous milestones. > > This cannot be. It has been fixed in kernel *after* Milestone 7. If you look closer at the bug you marked this a dupe of, you'll notice that the original reporter stated that the mouse was working, but scrolling was not. However, the original reporter of that bug was incorrect. What didn't work was region based scrolling, where you slide on the extreme right of the touchpad. This touchpad, when treated as a normal PS2 mouse, employs two-finger scrolling which worked fine, same as on the original Xandros distribution that was pre-installed on this machine. Now that the "proper" driver is enabled, neither scrolling type works, and the touchpad is stuck in this absolute mode, which is highly annoying.
Please attach the current X logfile.
Created attachment 319282 [details] xorg log
The synaptics driver is still not loaded. Please try with a simplified /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/11-x11-synaptics.fdi <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <deviceinfo version="0.2"> <device> <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad"> <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">on</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizScrollDelta" type="string">0</merge> </match> </device> </deviceinfo> If this still doesn't help, please attach the output of 'lshal'.
After editing the file run /etc/init.d/haldaemon stop rm -f /var/cache/hald/fdi-cache /etc/init.d/haldaemon start Then restart the Xserver.
Well, that's much better. The touchpad works normally now.
Could you please attach the output of 'lshal' nevertheless?
Created attachment 319398 [details] lshal output
Looking at the output of lshal it should have worked already before. Nevertheless I will simplify the .fdi file now.
done.