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[imdano]

Saw something interesting in the Precise Pangolin Beta 1 release notes:

ClickPad support

ClickPad devices are trackpads where the physical button is integrated into the trackpad surface. Ubuntu Precise now has enhanced support for these devices. When the button is pressed on a ClickPad device, a second finger may be used to drag the cursor.

ClickPad support requires extra handling that conflicts with "Click Action" support. Click Actions allow for separate actions when multiple fingers are active on a trackpad. The default Ubuntu settings enable right button behavior when two fingers are in contact with the trackpad surface and the physical trackpad button is pressed. Because of conflicting behavior, ClickPad devices do not support Click Actions in this release.
Most Synaptics brand ClickPads are recognized out of the box. Apple MacBook trackpads are recognized as well. Support for Apple Magic Trackpads and more Synaptics brand ClickPads will follow in the next release.

Has anyone tried this out yet? If so, how does the touchpad behave?

[stfields]

Saw something interesting in the Precise Pangolin Beta 1 release notes:
Has anyone tried this out yet? If so, how does the touchpad behave?

Yeah, this is great. I didn't even notice the change, but now that you point it out, I really like it. It behaves like I would intuitively expect it to -- click the pad with one finger, drag with another, and I can highlight text or move around windows. Cool!

On the downside, three finger tap seems to have disappeared. Annoying...

[imdano]

On the downside, three finger tap seems to have disappeared. Annoying...

You can bring it back, though! Just run this:

synclient TapButton3=2

And it will work again. If you want to make the change permanent, make your /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50_synaptics.conf file look like this:

# Example xorg.conf.d snippet that assigns the touchpad driver
# to all touchpads. See xorg.conf.d(5) for more information on
# InputClass.
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, your distribution will likely overwrite
# it when updating. Copy (and rename) this file into
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d first.
# Additional options may be added in the form of
#   Option "OptionName" "value"
#
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        Option "ClickPad" "1"
        Option "TapButton3" "2"
# This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot be
# enabled by default. See the following link for details:
# http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-ignore-configuration-errors.html
      MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad ignore duplicates"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchOS "Linux"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/mouse*"
        Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection

[nauni1977]

Fan again

Some people wrote, that they never noticed the fan. Other had the same experience like me and are annoyed by the constantly spinning fan. Is it possible that this is caused by the model? I mean i5 vs. i7 model ...

Can you please send me your experience? Please just reply or send me a private message - I will accumulate and pot it in two weeks here ... because if this is not the reason I will send the laptop again to Lenovo support and hope this time the problem will be solved ...

Thanks in advance! For now my experience ... I have a i7-Version and the fan makes me mad! Temprature is most times around 42°C.

Greetings, nauni

[imdano]

I've got the clementine orange i7 model and haven't had any issues with the fan. I did have the SSD die on me about a week ago, though. Had to have it replaced...

[deckoff]

@nauni1977,
@everyone else

I see some of your systems have detected your touchpad as a touchpad.. but in my case it's detected as a mouse.
so My GUI options for palm detection (disable touchpad while typing) do not show up for me, How did you guys
get it to detect your touchpad as a mouse. and it would be nice if you can share your input related config's so I can compare with my system

Same issue here touchpad is recognized as a mouse. F6 will not disable it at all, by the way (it is mouse, to the system
My up arrow key results in ~ , had to re-assign it. Works this way in grub, too. Probably kernel issue???

Thanks for all the tips for fixing the other problems, will be happy if someone finds a fix for the touchpad issue

[deckoff]

It seems to me that my arrow up problem is a hardware problem - I have this problem in BIOS too!!!! This simply cannot be a BIOS issue....
I cannot assign a keyboard combo to change layout keyboard or kill X server - combo is not working and gets lost after a reboot...
EDIT: I WILL BE HAPPY IF SOMEONE PROVIDES the DVD backups as a torrent file, I think I will be taking the machine to the store for replacement/repair, so the fewer cases for not accepting my warranty, the better

[sander.lindeman]

I'm also facing the weird keyboard problem. It started with the 't' that was changed to the F9 key. A simple xmodmap fixed that issue (only in X though). What is really strange is that indeed the BIOS and my dualboot Windows 7 also show this behavior.

This morning things really got messed up: suddenly the arrow-up key was changed into the F9 key too (it results in the letter T because of the xmodmap) and a few minutes later also the delete-key has been changed to the same F9 key!

The big problem here is that all four keys (F9, t, arrow-up, delete) have the same keycodes so I'm unable to remap them all to their original behavior:

KeyPress event, serial 35, synthetic NO, window 0x6600001,
    root 0xaf, subw 0x0, time 2395970, (-643,212), root:(137,258),
    state 0x0, keycode 75 (keysym 0x74, t), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 28
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (74) "t"
    XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (74) "t"
    XFilterEvent returns: False

Note that keycode 75 stands for F9. Also using showkey and showkey -s all four keys are the same. There's nothing weird in /usr/share/acpi-support/key-constants, and xmodmap -pke looks normal.

Any ideas how to fix this, or is this a hardware issue? Maybe I'll restore the laptop to it's original Windows 7 to see what happens.

btw, quite a few people faced this issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/974455

edit: also the F5 key joined the other remapped keys, so now I have 5 keys that act as the F9 key... Factory default rescue in progress...