Finally, my touchpad working properly on dell inspiron 4000 power with xubuntu. Before the touchpad always hang and i have to enter command
rmmod psmouse
modprobe psmouse
Now I don’t have to do it again, I already fix the problem, thanks to internet 🙂
this is howto
1. Download the latest synaptic driver from here
2. make sure you already get the package for xserver-xorg-dev
3. follow the steps on synaptics_driver
run this command to know what touchpad do you have
cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=0000
N: Name=”SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad”
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input2
H: Handlers=mouse0 event2 ts0
B: EV=b
B: KEY=6420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=11000003
and this is my xorg.conf
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Synaptics Mouse”
Driver “synaptics”
Option “Device” “/dev/psaux”
Option “Protocol” “event”
Option “LeftEdge” “1700”
Option “RightEdge” “5300”
Option “TopEdge” “1700”
Option “BottomEdge” “4200”
Option “FingerLow” “25”
Option “FingerHigh” “30”
Option “MaxTapTime” “180”
Option “MaxTapMove” “220”
Option “VertScrollDelta” “100”
Option “MinSpeed” “0.09”
Option “MaxSpeed” “0.18”
Option “AccelFactor” “0.0015”
Option “SHMConfig” “on”
# Option “Repeater” “/dev/ps2mouse”
EndSection
If you notice that on the option “Protocol” I change to “event”
and on the server layout section
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Default Layout”
Screen “Default Screen”
InputDevice “Generic Keyboard”
InputDevice “Configured Mouse”
InputDevice “stylus” “SendCoreEvents”
InputDevice “cursor” “SendCoreEvents”
InputDevice “eraser” “SendCoreEvents”
InputDevice “Synaptics Mouse” “AlwaysPointer”
EndSection
After you finish this, save and reboot your computer. you should have your touchpad working
ps: after a few times watching dmesg, I still notice that the problem still exist and indeed it’s happen again
ps: I upgrade to edgy, I hope this will fix the problem 🙂