Hello,
I’m using OpenSuse 11.2 64bit.
For a long time my touchpad worked fine at all. Suddently I’m not able to click by touching anymore. Moving the pointer is still possible. But for clicks, I have to use the “real” button.
As it works with Windows, hardware should be OK.
I’ve no idea where I can start my search.
any chance you are using a recent KDE 4 version? Because I noticed the same on openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 3.
Uwe
Check the settings in yast2>hardware>mouse and check the touchpad settings are correct.
Yes. KDE is updated to factory. 4.4.x
I reinstalled my computer 2 months ago. This solved the problem for about 2 weeks. Then it came up again. I cannot see any correlation to updates.
I only have an icon called “Maus in Textkonsole” (mouse for terminal). I can’t imaging, that this is the right one. But there isn’t any other module to install.
If there’s no correlation to updates, it would leave only a hardware problem. Since it works on windows, and immediately after install, that is not be the case.
Which brings us to installed software, or updates, rather to what happened 2 weeks after install, preferably before last boot.
Please post output of:
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Output of xorg.conf:
I was able to solve the problem myself:
First, I found out that I can temporarliy activate the click-function with “gsynaptics”. Now, I know the right name for “clicking-on-the-touchpad”: tapping
After a search it seems that there was a bug or a change in “HAL”. I don’t know exactly. HAL doesn’t detect my touchpad in the right way. So I have to help it with a new file in
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="input.x11_driver" string="synaptics">
<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">1</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
Such bugs a quiete annoying 
Thank you for your try to help me.