Touchpad so slow on dapper f3 laptop

[alingatong]

I am using satellite a10 and installed dapper flight3 by dist-upgrade. Everything is working fine. I found out its booting fast (51 seconds on bootchart). Firefox deer park and the updated mozilla-thunderbird are all working good. openoffice is also working good.

I have one problem though. My touchpad is responding very slow. And I cannot adjust it using the mouse properties in gnome. I am glad im on a mouse but when I am out in the office, i will be forced to use my touchpad. So i really need to fix this one.

Any ideas how to fix this?

[aboe]

I had the same problem a while ago...

Is it a alps touchpad?? or a synaptics...

This is my part of xorg.conf for my touchpad, hope it helps..(it is adapted for my touchpad alps/glide)

so you may have to adjust some settings....
like the edges

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "AlwaysCore"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2"
Option "Protocol" "event"
Option "LeftEdge" "130"
Option "RightEdge" "840"
Option "TopEdge" "130"
Option "BottomEdge" "640"
Option "FingerLow" "7"
Option "FingerHigh" "8"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "MaxTapMove" "110"
Option "ClickTime" "0"
Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "75"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "20"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "20"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.60"
Option "MaxSpeed" "1.10"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.030"
Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"
Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"
Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
Option "CircularScrolling" "1"
Option "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"
Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
EndSection
post your result, if this helps

[alingatong]

Thanks Aboe. I found out from other the threads about editing the xorg.conf file. I even reach the gentoo wiki and bugzilla.

I have it working now. I have an almost the same configuration as you have in your xorg.conf. I love this forum man...I have been to Kubuntu--its quiet down there. I have been into the freebsd forum, its quiet also.

by the way, i know your into e17...we share the same interest. I have updating my e17 from cvs almost 2 times a week.. the developers are quite active.

thanks again

[aboe]

that's true, I love E17, translated most of it in dutch (my native language).

I'm monitoring Shadoi also, he has some great Idea's about getting E17 into debian and ubuntu. but so it is gonna take some time to do it right.

moving from cvs to svn and svn-buildpackage.