On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 04:07:47PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 11/11/18 4:31 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >Can any of you remind me how to find out the Synaptics model it is, > >and/or figure out if it would be expected (or not) to support two- > >finger scrolling? > > Start with: > > dmesg | egrep -i 'input:|mouse|synapt' looking in dmesg output for subsets of that I find: 3.417773] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input5 and [ 3.090864] psmouse serio4: synaptics: queried max coordinates: x [..5694], y [..5048] [ 3.121691] psmouse serio4: synaptics: Touchpad model: 1, fw: 7.0, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd44791/0xb00000/0x20000, board id: 0, fw id: 504136 [ 3.121698] psmouse serio4: synaptics: serio: Synaptics pass-through port at isa0060/serio4/input0 and [ 6.646764] psmouse serio5: alps: Unknown ALPS touchpad: E7=10 00 64, EC=10 00 64 all of which I take to mean it is an alps touchpad that is synaptics compatible. Any pointers on how to figure out what its capabilities are? (other than just trusting the synaptics driver to figure it out, which I've already tried but don't like the result). I've googled for some of those values, but didn't turn up anything meaningful (to me). -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, And my hope is in you all day long. -------------------------- Psalm 25:4-5 (NIV) --------------------------------