Touchpad on Dell Laptop

martvefun · March 24, 2013, 1:10pm

Hello !

I just installed OpenSuse on my Dell Vostro 3360 laptop and noticed the touchpad is not well handle. I can use it to move the mouse, click, double-click but touchpad-specific functionalities like edge or two fingers scrolling is not working.

I installed gsynaptics package to configure it but I have an error

GSynaptics couldn’t initialize.
You have to set ‘SHMConfig’ ‘true’ in xorg.conf or XF86Config to use GSynaptics

I tried modifying the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf to change the input class with :

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
# 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*"
        Option    "HorizScrollDelta"    "0"
# enable tap-to-click as default (bnc#722457)
    Option "TapButton1" "1"
    Option "TapButton3" "2"
    Option "TapButton2" "3"
      Option "SHMConfig" "true"
EndSection

I tried also using “on” instead of “true” or adding “Option “VertTwoFingerScroll” “on”” (what I usually did on other linux distributions) without success.

I checked the hardware information utility, it seems to detect only a generic mouse

45: PS/2 00.0: 10500 PS/2 Mouse
  [Created at input.249]
  Unique ID: AH6Q.U5GX9Ignjc0
  Hardware Class: mouse
  Model: "PS/2 Generic Mouse"
  Vendor: 0x0002 
  Device: 0x0001 "PS/2 Generic Mouse"
  Compatible to: int 0x0210 0x0003
  Device File: /dev/input/mice (/dev/input/mouse0)
  Device Files: /dev/input/mice, /dev/input/mouse0, /dev/input/event1, /dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-1-event-mouse, /dev/input/by-path/platform-i8042-serio-1-mouse
  Device Number: char 13:63 (char 13:32)
  Driver Info #0:
    Buttons: 3
    Wheels: 0
    XFree86 Protocol: explorerps/2
    GPM Protocol: exps2
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

I tried to run Archlinux and Manjaro on the laptop before but I also had this problem of scrolling I couldn’t solve.

Any idea ?

Thank you

knurpht · March 24, 2013, 1:14pm

Please show output of

lsusb

Is this on GNOME or KDE?

martvefun · March 24, 2013, 1:22pm

~> lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 138a:0011 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS5011 Fingerprint Reader
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0c45:6449 Microdia 
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 8087:07da Intel Corp.

And I use GNOME.

knurpht · March 24, 2013, 1:36pm

and, since it doesn’t show up,

/sbin/lspci

?

Did you try to configure the device through GNOME’s settings for the input device?

martvefun · March 24, 2013, 1:40pm

~> /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM77 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 (rev c4)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)

In the GNOME configuration menu, it is detected as a “normal” mouse and doesn’t provide touchpad-related options like two fingers scolling, etc.

After searching, it seems that it is a recurrent problem with the vostro 3360 and alps touchpad. I found this thread on the archlinux forum with somebody buidling from source modified drivers. I tried to reproduce but failed to build it

DKMS make.log for psmouse-alps-dst-0.4 for kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop (x86_64)
Sun Mar 24 13:34:38 CET 2013
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-3.7.10-1.1-obj/x86_64/desktop'
  CC      /var/lib/dkms/psmouse/alps-dst-0.4/build/src/psmouse-base.o
/var/lib/dkms/psmouse/alps-dst-0.4/build/src/psmouse-base.c: In function ‘__check_smartscroll’:
/var/lib/dkms/psmouse/alps-dst-0.4/build/src/psmouse-base.c:64:1: warning: return from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
  CC      /var/lib/dkms/psmouse/alps-dst-0.4/build/src/synaptics.o
/var/lib/dkms/psmouse/alps-dst-0.4/build/src/synaptics.c: In function ‘set_input_params’:
/var/lib/dkms/psmouse/alps-dst-0.4/build/src/synaptics.c:1153:3: error: too few arguments to function ‘input_mt_init_slots’
In file included from /var/lib/dkms/psmouse/alps-dst-0.4/build/src/synaptics.c:29:0:
/usr/src/linux-3.7.10-1.1/include/linux/input/mt.h:72:5: note: declared here
/var/lib/dkms/psmouse/alps-dst-0.4/build/src/synaptics.c:1165:3: error: too few arguments to function ‘input_mt_init_slots’
In file included from /var/lib/dkms/psmouse/alps-dst-0.4/build/src/synaptics.c:29:0:
/usr/src/linux-3.7.10-1.1/include/linux/input/mt.h:72:5: note: declared here
make[3]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/psmouse/alps-dst-0.4/build/src/synaptics.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [psmouse.ko] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-3.7.10-1.1-obj/x86_64/desktop'

edit: maybe related to this bug

knurpht · March 24, 2013, 2:20pm

What’s your problem with following the instructions on the Arch forum?
A prerequisite would be to have the Linux Kernel Development pattern installed.

hendersj · March 25, 2013, 3:28am

On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:16:02 +0000, martvefun wrote:

> I just installed OpenSuse

What version of openSUSE did you install?

I had this issue with 12.1 on my Dell laptop here, but a kernel update
resolved it. There was a reversion at some point (it’s now on 12.2) that
made it so the “disable while typing” functionality doesn’t work, but the
other functionality does.

Jim

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eduardohki · March 28, 2013, 5:02pm

I got the same error, and I have installed patterns-openSUSE-devel_kernel.

I have the laptop Dell Vostro 3460, with opensuse 12.3 x86_64 GNOME-Shell.

I tried another version of the alps drivers located in public download — dahetral, none of them worked.

Eduardo