Hi Amaya,
First of all I would like to thank debian team for
sending such an early reply. I heard from friends that debian team fixes
bugs and sends patches within few hours or days.
>secerity 469198 wishlist
> >reassing 469198 xserver-xorg
> >thanks
>
> >Hello, Venigalla.
>
> >Thanks for reporting this bug in the Debian GNU/Linux OS.
> >
> >I am reassigning this bug report to the xserver-xorg package, which
> >takes care of configuring the hardware for X to work.
Thanks for reassigning this report to xserver-xorg package. After some
> google search i came to know that xorg.conf file is managed by
> xserver-xorg package.
>I am also changing the priority, as this is an improvement request.
I have found the xorg.conf manual page at command line itself. So i didn't
visit the link you have given below. The manual pages for xorg.conf can be
found by following command:
man xorg.conf
Thanks again.
>Check the end of this email for a link on xorg.conf documentation.
> >
> >Have you considered documenting your fix in the Debian Wiki?
> >http://wiki.debian.org
>
> >I am sure it would be useful for other users with similar hardware!
> >
> >>Venigalla Sayikiran wrote:
> >> Package: base
> >> Severity: important
> >>
> >> I am using Dell Latitude D520 n series laptop. My laptop uses a
> >> Alps-Glidepoint touchpad. When i installed debian etchv4.0, i was not
> >> able to use the tapping feature in my laptop.
> >>
> >> However, i was able to use touchpad to move my mouse pointer. The
> >> mouse pointer moved at snail pace with touchpad as well as external
> >> USB mouse device.
> >>
> >> Then i opened /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, and i found this:
> >> Section "InputDevice"
> >> Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
> >> Driver "synaptics"
> >> Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> >> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> >> Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
> >> Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> In order to increase the speed of my mouse pointer, i had to add few
> >> more lines to above settings. It worked for me. To enable tapping
> >> feature i had to go through two more steps:
> >> Step 1: In order to find out hardware information about my touchpad
> >> cat /proc/bus/input/devices
> >> I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=7321
> >> N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint"
> >> P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
> >> S: Sysfs=/class/input/input4
> >> H: Handlers=mouse2 event4 ts2
> >> B: EV=f
> >> B: KEY=420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> >> B: REL=3
> >> B: ABS=1000003
> >>
> >> Its clear that from above output that "etchv4.0" detects my hardware
> >> as Apls-Glidepoint, which indeed is as supplied from Dell computers.
> >> Somehow xorg.conf doesn't recognizes betwwen Alps-Glidepoint and
> >> Synaptic Touchpad. Well i don't know which package actually controls
> >> xorg.conf file.
>
> >That should be xserver-xorg.
>
> > > Step 2: Then i changed xorg.conf file as shown below
> >> Section "InputDevice"
> >> Identifier "Alps Glidepoint"
> >> Driver "alps"
> >> Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> >> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> >> Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
> >> Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
> >> Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
> >> Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
> >> Option "FastTaps" "1"
> >> Option "MaxDoubleTapTime" "100"
> >> Option "TouchpadOff" "0"
> >> Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
> >> Option "MaxSpeed" "1.00"
> >> Option "MinSpeed" "0.50"
> >> EndSection
> >>
> >> Now i am able to use tapping feature perfectly. I still want to know
> >> more about xorg.conf, like how to configure it, what does each section
> >> mean, and what options does it support. I think a detail documentation
> >> is needed.
>
> >http://www.google.com/search?q=xorg.conf+explained&ie=UTF8
>
> >I am sure the synaptics package also provides information on this.
>
> >> I also tried all permutations and combinations of "Identifier" and
> >> "Driver" field with both synaptic and alps, but none of them worked
> >> for me. The only combination that worked is shown in step 2. I hope
> >> from next time this problem shouldn't be repeated in future versions
> >> of debian OS.
>
> >Yes, thanks for reporting this.
>
> >Happy hacking!
>
