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Talk:UltraNav

2010-11-24T04:58:59Z

Carlz:

Is there a reliable way to turn off the touchpad and the lowermost buttons, but leave the other functions (trackpoint and three buttons above the pad) not tampered with?
Thanks for input!

Update: Nevermind, I just found the BIOS-option to disable it :D

- colo

Yes there is with the very latest distributions like Fedora 10 with updates applied create a file like this:

/etc/hal/fdi/policy/disable-touchpad.fdi
<pre>
<match key="info.product" string="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad">
<merge key="input.x11_options.TouchpadOff" type="string">1</merge>
</match>
</pre>

You will need to reboot (actually restart both X11 and HAL, but reboot is easier at that point) before it takes effect.
--[[User:Tonko|Tonko]] 00:18, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

== Script for switching state of TouchPad and TrackPoint ==

{{HINT|A suggestion.}}
{{key|Fn}}{{key|F8}} can run {{cmduser|untranav.sh toggle}}

untranav.sh
<pre>
#!/bin/bash
TRACKPOINT_NAME="trackpoint"
TRACKPOINT='TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint'
TOUCHPAD_NAME="touchpad"
TOUCHPAD='SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'

Usage()
{
echo "usage: ${0/*\/} status [device]"
echo " ${0/*\/} enable [device]"
echo " ${0/*\/} disable [device]"
echo " ${0/*\/} toggle [device]"
echo "device: $TRACKPOINT_NAME"
echo " $TOUCHPAD_NAME"
echo "toggle order: 1) $TRACKPOINT_NAME enable"
echo " $TOUCHPAD_NAME disable"
echo " 2) $TRACKPOINT_NAME disable"
echo " $TOUCHPAD_NAME enable"
echo " 3) $TRACKPOINT_NAME disable"
echo " $TOUCHPAD_NAME disable"
echo " 4) $TRACKPOINT_NAME enable"
echo " $TOUCHPAD_NAME enable"
exit 1
}

GetState()
{
echo $(/usr/bin/xinput list-props "$1" | grep "Device Enabled" | cut -f2 -d:)
}

Status()
{
case "$1" in
"$TRACKPOINT")
DEVICE="$TRACKPOINT_NAME"
;;
"$TOUCHPAD")
DEVICE="$TOUCHPAD_NAME"
;;
esac

if [ $(GetState "$1") = "1" ]; then
STATUS="enabled"
else
STATUS="disabled"
fi

echo -e "$DEVICE: $STATUS"
}

SetState()
{
/usr/bin/xinput set-int-prop "$1" "Device Enabled" "8" "$2"
}

Enable()
{
SetState "$1" 1
}

Disable()
{
SetState "$1" 0
}

Toggle()
{
if [ $(GetState "$1") = "1" ]; then
STATE=0
else
STATE=1
fi

SetState "$1" "$STATE"
}

[ $# -gt 2 ] && Usage

case "$1" in
"status")
COMMAND="Status"
;;
"enable")
COMMAND="Enable"
;;
"disable")
COMMAND="Disable"
;;
"toggle")
COMMAND="Toggle"
if [ -z "$2" ]; then
if [ $(GetState "$TRACKPOINT") = "1" -a $(GetState "$TOUCHPAD") = "1" ]; then
SetState "$TRACKPOINT" 1
SetState "$TOUCHPAD" 0
elif [ $(GetState "$TRACKPOINT") = "1" -a $(GetState "$TOUCHPAD") = "0" ]; then
SetState "$TRACKPOINT" 0
SetState "$TOUCHPAD" 1
elif [ $(GetState "$TRACKPOINT") = "0" -a $(GetState "$TOUCHPAD") = "1" ]; then
SetState "$TRACKPOINT" 0
SetState "$TOUCHPAD" 0
else
SetState "$TRACKPOINT" 1
SetState "$TOUCHPAD" 1
fi
exit
fi
;;
*)
Usage
;;
esac

case "$2" in
"$TRACKPOINT_NAME")
$COMMAND "$TRACKPOINT"
;;
"$TOUCHPAD_NAME")
$COMMAND "$TOUCHPAD"
;;
"")
$COMMAND "$TRACKPOINT"
$COMMAND "$TOUCHPAD"
;;
*)
Usage
esac
</pre>

==2-finger scrolling==
''Info here: http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1603657''

Talk:Synaptics TouchPad driver for X

2010-11-24T04:58:04Z

Carlz:

I prefer use the trackpoint instead of the touchpad for pointer movement but find the horizontal/vertical scrolling using the right/bottom edges of the touchpad useful. I have configured my touchpad so that its entire area is scrollable by changing the edge coordinates in my xorg.conf. Now I can can control the pointer with the trackpoint and scroll windows horizontally and vertically at the same time by dragging my thumb around anywhere on the touchpad, like a 2-axis scrollwheel or a scrollball. Unfortunately, these settings seem to get lost when resuming from hibernation (suspend2) but there is no problem when using sleep/suspend to ram.

My xorg.conf Touchpad config section:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
# Set up a very small touchpad area so that the up/down
# and left/right scrolling areas take up the entire
# touchpad. This makes it possible to use the entire
# touchpad for scrolling and the superior trackpoint
# for cursor movement ;)
Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
Option "LeftRightScrolling" "1"
Option "LeftEdge" "0"
Option "RightEdge" "1"
Option "TopEdge" "0"
Option "BottomEdge" "1"
Option "TapButton1" "0"
Option "TapButton2" "0"
Option "TapButton3" "0"
# The above non-standard settings for the edges
# causes some odd tapping behavior so turn
# off all corner button options.
Option "RTCornerButton" "0"
Option "RBCornerButton" "0"
Option "LTCornerButton" "0"
Option "RBCornerButton" "0"
EndSection

== Configuration for newer xorg ==

With the newer xorg (>= 1.7.3) on Debian, there appears to be a
problem that the touchpad is detected but 'synclient -l' does not
work.

A solution that I found is to have file called (say)
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-thinkpad.conf which contains:

<pre>
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Trackpoint"
MatchProduct "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "AutoServerLayout" "true"
Option "GuestMouse" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Trackpoint"
MatchProduct "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"
Option "AutoServerLayout" "true"
Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
</pre>

==GPointing Device Settings==
*The gsynaptic web page says the following: ''GSynaptics will be obsolete. Please try GPointing Device Settings.''
*The package in Ubuntu Maverick is gpointing-device-settings
*Don't know if the choice to leave the older software in this article was intentional but...
*I'm happy to report that GPointing Device Settings works awesome on t410s, including middle mouse button (button 2) scrolling (while retaining unix clipboard paste).

Talk:Synaptics TouchPad driver for X

2010-11-24T04:49:17Z

Carlz:

I prefer use the trackpoint instead of the touchpad for pointer movement but find the horizontal/vertical scrolling using the right/bottom edges of the touchpad useful. I have configured my touchpad so that its entire area is scrollable by changing the edge coordinates in my xorg.conf. Now I can can control the pointer with the trackpoint and scroll windows horizontally and vertically at the same time by dragging my thumb around anywhere on the touchpad, like a 2-axis scrollwheel or a scrollball. Unfortunately, these settings seem to get lost when resuming from hibernation (suspend2) but there is no problem when using sleep/suspend to ram.

My xorg.conf Touchpad config section:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
# Set up a very small touchpad area so that the up/down
# and left/right scrolling areas take up the entire
# touchpad. This makes it possible to use the entire
# touchpad for scrolling and the superior trackpoint
# for cursor movement ;)
Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
Option "LeftRightScrolling" "1"
Option "LeftEdge" "0"
Option "RightEdge" "1"
Option "TopEdge" "0"
Option "BottomEdge" "1"
Option "TapButton1" "0"
Option "TapButton2" "0"
Option "TapButton3" "0"
# The above non-standard settings for the edges
# causes some odd tapping behavior so turn
# off all corner button options.
Option "RTCornerButton" "0"
Option "RBCornerButton" "0"
Option "LTCornerButton" "0"
Option "RBCornerButton" "0"
EndSection

== Configuration for newer xorg ==

With the newer xorg (>= 1.7.3) on Debian, there appears to be a
problem that the touchpad is detected but 'synclient -l' does not
work.

A solution that I found is to have file called (say)
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-thinkpad.conf which contains:

<pre>
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Trackpoint"
MatchProduct "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "AutoServerLayout" "true"
Option "GuestMouse" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Trackpoint"
MatchProduct "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"
Option "AutoServerLayout" "true"
Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
</pre>

==GPointing Device Settings==
*The gsynaptic web page says the following: ''GSynaptics will be obsolete. Please try GPointing Device Settings.''
*The package in Ubuntu Maverick is gpointing-device-settings
*Don't know if the choice to list the older software in this article was intentional but...
*I'm happy to report that GPointing Device Settings works awesome on t410s, including middle mouse button (button 2) scrolling (while retaining unix clipboard paste).

Talk:Synaptics TouchPad driver for X

2010-11-24T04:47:49Z

Carlz: /* Configuration for newer xorg */

I prefer use the trackpoint instead of the touchpad for pointer movement but find the horizontal/vertical scrolling using the right/bottom edges of the touchpad useful. I have configured my touchpad so that its entire area is scrollable by changing the edge coordinates in my xorg.conf. Now I can can control the pointer with the trackpoint and scroll windows horizontally and vertically at the same time by dragging my thumb around anywhere on the touchpad, like a 2-axis scrollwheel or a scrollball. Unfortunately, these settings seem to get lost when resuming from hibernation (suspend2) but there is no problem when using sleep/suspend to ram.

My xorg.conf Touchpad config section:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
# Set up a very small touchpad area so that the up/down
# and left/right scrolling areas take up the entire
# touchpad. This makes it possible to use the entire
# touchpad for scrolling and the superior trackpoint
# for cursor movement ;)
Option "UpDownScrolling" "1"
Option "LeftRightScrolling" "1"
Option "LeftEdge" "0"
Option "RightEdge" "1"
Option "TopEdge" "0"
Option "BottomEdge" "1"
Option "TapButton1" "0"
Option "TapButton2" "0"
Option "TapButton3" "0"
# The above non-standard settings for the edges
# causes some odd tapping behavior so turn
# off all corner button options.
Option "RTCornerButton" "0"
Option "RBCornerButton" "0"
Option "LTCornerButton" "0"
Option "RBCornerButton" "0"
EndSection

== Configuration for newer xorg ==

With the newer xorg (>= 1.7.3) on Debian, there appears to be a
problem that the touchpad is detected but 'synclient -l' does not
work.

A solution that I found is to have file called (say)
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-thinkpad.conf which contains:

<pre>
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Trackpoint"
MatchProduct "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "AutoServerLayout" "true"
Option "GuestMouse" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Trackpoint"
MatchProduct "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"
Option "AutoServerLayout" "true"
Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
</pre>

==GPointing Device Settings==
*The gsynaptic web page says the following: ''GSynaptics will be obsolete. Please try GPointing Device Settings.''
*The package in Ubuntu Maverick is gpointing-device-settings
*Don't know if the choice to list the older software in this article was intentional but...
*I can report that it works awesome on t410s, including middle mouse button scrolling (while retaining unix clipboard paste).

Talk:NVIDIA Quadro NVS 3100M

2010-11-24T04:23:25Z

Carlz: â†Created page with '==Weird issues with Ubuntu Maverick, T410s== *Had errors writing initial xorg.conf file *After writing file, had upside down mirror image elements in gnome ''Solution was...'

==Weird issues with Ubuntu Maverick, T410s==
*Had errors writing initial xorg.conf file
*After writing file, had upside down mirror image elements in gnome

''Solution was to switch from switchable graphics to always discrete graphics in bios. If you need to switch back to Intel for extended battery life, mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to "".back, reboot and change bios to integrated graphics, annoying but works.''

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 3100M

2010-11-24T04:18:38Z

Carlz:

__NOTOC__
{| width="100%"
|style="vertical-align:top" |
<div style="margin: 0; margin-right:10px; border: 1px solid #dfdfdf; padding: 0em 1em 1em 1em; background-color:#F8F8FF; align:right;">

This is a NVidia video adapter
== Features ==
* Chipset: NVidia ??
* PCI ID: [http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/10de/0a6c 10de:0A6C]
* PCI-E
* 256 or 512 MB video memory
</div>
|style="vertical-align:top" |
|}

== Linux driver - OpenSource ==
Works with Nouveau [http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6 git] or a recent kernel with this [http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/commit/?id=931aacf4619b7d7e3140a420967d4eaa466b8574 patch] respectively. (This fixes the problem, where the driver falsely disabled discrete graphic, which resulted in a black screen.) 2D is supported, while 3D support is under development...

== Linux driver - Proprietary ==
For the latest proprietary drivers go to the [http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html NVIDIA Unix Drivers page].
Several users have experienced unreliability when using various versions of the proprietary NVIDIA drivers (specifically v185 installed by Ubuntu 9.10 and v190 from NVIDIA). However [http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-195.36.24.html NVIDIA linux driver v195] should work correctly. Remember to check official repository of your distribution before installing from proprietary scripts (see below). If drivers don't work, switch back uninstalling the driver. Try removing {{path|/etc/X11/xorg.conf}} if still doesn't work.

Backlight controls are not functional while running nVidia driver 195. They can be controlled by either changing brightness in a VT or adding the following to the "Devices" section of xorg.conf (tested on driver 195 beta under Ubuntu Lucid Alpha 3 and driver 195.36.24 on Fedora 12):

Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1"

=== Install on Fedora 12 from repository ===
The following has just been successfully tested on Fedora 12 (kernel 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686.PAE) and kmod-nvidia-PAE-195.36.15-1.fc12.2.i686.
[http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#head-205aab6f190d363e3915c0fa2e0681fc392aaeb6 Rpm Fusion] repository provide latest nvidia packages. Install the repository and the then install the driver using yum ({{cmdroot|yum install kmod-nvidia-PAE}}). Put nouveau on the modules blacklist. For details check [http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#head-205aab6f190d363e3915c0fa2e0681fc392aaeb6 Rpm Fusion how-to].
Activate backlight controls using xorg.conf trick shown above.

== ThinkPads this chip may be found in ==
* {{T410}}, {{T410s}}, {{T510}}

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