On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 09:16:23AM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 11/12/18 6:50 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >looking in dmesg output for subsets of that I find: > >3.417773] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input5 > ... > >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? > > > The arch wiki has useful information (as it often does): > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics Hmmm... interesting! looking at the MATE section (since I run the MATE desktop), I do the two dconf-editor settings listed there. then I do (skipping a step or two in what I show here): xinput list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" | grep Capabilities Synaptics Capabilities (324): 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1 which reports : >From left to right, this shows: 1: device has a physical left button 1: device does not have a physical middle button 1: device has a physical right button 0: device does not support two-finger detection 0: device does not support three-finger detection 1: device can configure vertical resolution 1: device can configure horizontal resolution where the two zeroes indicate 2 and 3-finger operations do not seem to be supported. Since The Main Thing I would like to have that I cannot get working are two-finger horiz/vert scrolling, this seems to say that the device does not recognize (and never will) that feature. Even though the Mate touchpad settings show they are enabled, as does synclient. My thought on this is: :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( Sigh. I guess that since the laptop was free, I shouldn't complain. Thanks for the pointer! Fred -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ---------------------------- Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. ----------------------------- Isaiah 40:28 (niv) -----------------------------