Elantech touchpad improperly recognized as “ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse”

As promised by ALLurGroceries, the Dell mini 10 touchpad is indeed recognized in Maveric. I had to add
synclient AreaBottomEdge=700 AreaLeftEdge=25 AreaRightEdge=1125 MinSpeed=0.3 AccelFactor=0.58 to startup commands to make the buttons usable. I've also tried adding the following to xorg.conf, but the settings are ignored. Anyone knows why?

Code:

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Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Elantech Touchpad"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mouse0"
        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
        Option          "AreaBottomEdge"        "700"
        Option          "AreaLeftEdge"          "25"
        Option          "AreaRightEdge"        "1125"
EndSection

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I've not the slightest idea how to add it as a udev rule.:confused:

Syndaemon can now be used to disable touchpad when typing. The default timeout is 0.5 seconds, and there seems to be no straight forward way to change it, or at least I couldn't find it. You have to kill the daemon and then relaunch with your own timeout, 'syndaemon -i 1 -k' in my case.

@mikewhatever try throwing the option lines in /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf

ALLurGroceries, thanks for input, but those settings are ignored too. I also had to create the highlighted part because it didn't exist.
/usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf

After reading the last few posts I took a hint and in-place upgraded my ASUS K50ij from 10.04 to latest 10.10. Wow I can't believe it. That alone fixed my touchpad problems without making any adjustments to settings!

Even though touchpad problems seem like a small issue, I didn't realize how critically important it was until I finally got it fixed! It is fabulous to not have cursor bouncing everywhere when typing.

Thanks Groceries, you can have mine.

@mikewhatever sorry that was bad info, I don't use Ubuntu, I'm on Debian.. it looks like it may have been changed to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d now since 10.10. Give that a shot, if it still doesn't work, I'll dig into the documentation for 10.10.

@oregonbob glad you're happy, but I can't take the credit for the final patches... I just made an initial patch and wrote a guide. :)

That was a nasty bug that took a long time to get resolved. I have become spoiled from previous versions when bugs were often fixed within days or a week at most. But finally 10.10 fixed it. It also fixed my upside video cam. I'm on a roll. In both of those bugs I tried almost all of the fixes without success, to the point I gave up.

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Originally Posted by ALLurGroceries

@mikewhatever sorry that was bad info, I don't use Ubuntu, I'm on Debian.. it looks like it may have been changed to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d now since 10.10. Give that a shot, if it still doesn't work, I'll dig into the documentation for 10.10.

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You are quite right, that's probably the right place, but when I've added 10-synaptics.conf and rebooted, the keyboard didn't work so that I couldn't check if the settings were applied.:p Promptly used the recovery mode to delete it. This was the content:

Code:

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Section "InputClass"
        Identifier      "Elantech Touchpad"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mouse0"
        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
        Option          "AreaBottomEdge"        "700"
        Option          "AreaLeftEdge"          "25"
        Option          "AreaRightEdge"        "1125"
EndSection

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I've also noticed that the Min/Max Speed and AccelFactor I've set with GpointingDeviceSettings are being ignored as well.

Oh yeah, you'd need only the option lines, specifically the last 3, nothing else, not even the section markers. That's crazy that the keyboard died, lol! Not sure why... Also, make sure your settings between gnome-mouse-properties and gpointing-device-settings agree, mouse-properties will take precedence.

So, I created /usr/shar/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf with the following content and rebooted ...

Code:

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      Option          "AreaBottomEdge"        "700"
      Option          "AreaLeftEdge"          "25"
      Option          "AreaRightEdge"        "1125"

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... and it gets stuck at the splash screen. The recovery mode saved the day again. ;)

Hello!

Are there any progress with this Elantech driver here? The above described methods do not work for me, my touchpad is always detected as PS/2 Logitech Mouse.

I use a Samsung QX310 laptop with Elantech touchpad. Ubuntu 10.10, kerr 2.6.35-28-generic.