Right Click on TOUCHPAD for ASUS Notebook Not Working at all

[isadora]

And concerning your xorg.conf, i would skip the section:

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Section "InputDevice"
    Driver "synaptics"
    Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
    Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
    Option "CorePointer"
    Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1"
    Option "TapButton3" "3"
    Option "TapButton1" "1"
    Option "TapButton2" "2"
    Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
EndSection

...and try again.

[isadora]

Concerning the InputClass-section i mentioned earlier, it could also be worthy
taking a look at:
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf

In my 50-synaptics.conf i find following:

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Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Option "SHMConfig" "on"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "2"
        Option "TapButton3" "3"
        Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
        Option "TapAndDragGesture" "1"
        Option "SingleTapTimeout" "320"
        Option "FastTaps" "1"
EndSection

Probably worth testing, replacing this with:

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Section "InputClass"
   Identifier "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"
   MatchProduct "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"
   MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
   Driver "synaptics"
   Option "TapButton1" "1"
   Option "TapButton2" "3"
   Option "TapButton3" "2"
   Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
   Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1"
   Option "CoastingSpeed" "10"
   Option "EdgeMotionMinZ" "30"
   Option "EdgeMotionMaxZ" "40"
   Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "100"
   Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "400"
   Option "FingerLow" "9"
   Option "FingerHigh" "12"
   Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "0"
   Option "ClickPad" "True"
   Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection

Finally, i would remove that part from /etc/X11/xorg.conf first before
rebooting.

Remember: always keep an empty line at the end of the configuration-files.

[isadora]

And my very last tip:

http://diegoqueiroz.com.br/en/2012/08/c ... -no-linux/

[wintpe]

hi there

again this is very much the same touch pad i have in my asus zenbook prime.

you might want to look at that post and my evolving write up, but

the elantec touchpad is basicly rubish under all current versions of linux

and ubuntu/archlinux, and other versions suffer with it just as bad, in fact its a PITA in windows too.

until linux catches up , you are actualy best using it in a limited way, in otherwords two finger tap for right button

and enable some of the other kde fuctions ive suggested to work around some limitations.

plus use the microsoft 6000 bluetooth wireless mouse as i do or similar.....

I am guessing you might find some of the stuff ive suggested difficalt.

by the way mageia is no less difficalt to use then ubuntu.

sudo just switches you to root temporarily, it does not change the fact that only root can edit ystem files

or run system commands.

sudo does exist in mageia but unlike ubuntu they dont enable sudo root without password as thats so insecure.

anyhow hope its of some use to you

the link to my ongoing voyage of exploration and discovery on this bit of kit is here

http://www.linuxpc.co.uk/index.php?opti ... &Itemid=54

as soon as i find someone has solved some of the problems i will update this page, with the relevant info.

untill then it may serve as a refrence to some of the info thats going in the right direction.

many of the currrent asus laptops will share the same basic features of keyboard layout, mouse , etc

regards peter

[ghost4man]

Hi Guys,

Firstly I just want to express my humblest thanks for the support that I have received from everyone here!

When I first received my notebook it came shipped with Windows 8 and I have to tell you that I got it off quicker than a honeymooner on
his wedding night. I do not like microsoft in the slightest.

So my first option at the time was to install ubuntu 12.04 which I did. At the time a colleague of mine recommended Mageia so I thought that
I would give it a go. I have to say that despite the problems with the touchpad I am very impressed with it. It is easy to see why it is so highly
regarded on distrowatch, not that that should steer people in any particular direction. It has a lot of really elegant features which I think are
great and I have to say that it is very well set up and highly intuitive. Maybe I am just used to linux. If I remain this impressed then I have no doubts
I will install Mageia 3 on my desktop computer to replace Ubuntu 12.04.

Okay the problems that I have been experiencing with the touchpad is not unique to Mageia! I have to be honest here and say that I had exactly the
same issue with the notebook when I was running 12.04. It was the same problem so clearly this is a linux thing because it worked perfectly well
with Windows 8. I have to say that this is disappointing because I have a very old laptop which has 10.04 under the hood and everything works perfectly
aside from the fact that it is slow which is what you would expect from a laptop that old. This is something that linux I think has to address because
people are lets face it going more and more mobile.

Alright Isadora I went back into the file and took your advice and removed:

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Section "InputDevice"
    Driver "synaptics"
    Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
    Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
    Option "CorePointer"
    Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1"
    Option "TapButton3" "3"
    Option "TapButton1" "1"
    Option "TapButton2" "2"
    Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
EndSection

I went back and rebooted but no result.

Now for your file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf reads differently to mine. Mine reads as follows:

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# Example xorg.conf.d snippet that assigns the touchpad driver
# to all touchpads. See xorg.conf.d(5) for more information on
# InputClass.
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, your distribution will likely overwrite
# it when updating. Copy (and rename) this file into
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d first.
# Additional options may be added in the form of
#   Option "OptionName" "value"
#
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*"
EndSection

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Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad ignore duplicates"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchOS "Linux"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/mouse*"
        Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection

Okay so with your suggestion in mind I would like to replace it with the text that you provided so could you be specific as to what
part of my text I need to remove before I start adding the suggested text. I just want to be clear on this before I do anything else.

I have gone to:


http://diegoqueiroz.com.br/en/2012/08/c ... -no-linux/

and I will go over it a few times to get my head around it as to what needs to be done. For you it must seem very easy but for me at the
moment it is quite foreign.

Wintpe thanks for your thoughtful post. I have to say mate again that the problem with the touchpad is not unique to asus nor is it unique to this
distro. Given the lack of problems with my ancient laptop its something that linux as a whole will need to address. I have a lot of friends who would
switch over but wont due to the lack of itunes access. And before anyone suggest wine I can tell you from personal experience it did not work for me
using playitonlinux.

I will go to you link and have a good look. At the moment I get NO functionality out of it at all. In saying that I have no issues using a wireless mouse but
at some point in time I wouldnt mind having that functionality.

I have just noticed the following. When I start the notebook and it boots it gets to a point where the four icons appear at the bottom of the screen during the loading phase
consisting of what looks like a hard drive, system settings and the other two which eventually fade out. Oddly enough I can use the touchpad at will with the cursor going
wherever I want until those icons disappear and I guess the system has fully loaded. Then it just stops. Odd really that it does that.

Cheers for any assistance. A work in progress no doubt.

ozzie

[doktor5000]

I have just noticed the following. When I start the notebook and it boots it gets to a point where the four icons appear at the bottom of the screen during the loading phase
consisting of what looks like a hard drive, system settings and the other two which eventually fade out. Oddly enough I can use the touchpad at will with the cursor going
wherever I want until those icons disappear and I guess the system has fully loaded. Then it just stops. Odd really that it does that.

Sounds like a problem with evdev. The screen you're referring to is the KDE splashscreen, where KDE is starting.
You should report that fact as a bug.

Another hint: Please don't do such huge posts, makes it really hard to follow for the supporters here.

[tom_]

Hi Guys,
I have quickly discovered that the RIGHT CLICK feature on my Touchpad for my ASUS NOTEBOOK F401A does NOT work at all.

have you seen this page?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1169227#p1169227

[wintpe]

tom thats one of the links on my page.....

as for linux needs to keep up, thats often a critisism , but not this time.

the drivers for windows have gone through a load of ****** as well with plenty of critisism aimed at asus, samsung etc for choosing
this truly crap touchpad.

it has virtualy no hardware to support buttons as in a traditional mouse, its all emulation in software

it simply does not have any more than one single click botton across its entire surface.

its upto the software to put two and two together and work out when someones touching the area that is the bottons and that the single click happen.

and in that the person maintaining the drivers for this touchpad only just cought up recently but you need i thin a 3.7 kernel or to

backport the latest driver to it.

the driver at fault is the psmouse driver, it contains the elantec code and its static compiled in in this kernel (im running 3.4)

so i cant just unload it and load a replcment module.

i dont realy want to backport it as ill be doing that everytime an update comes, so we have a choice, work around it and wait for kernel 3.7

or choose something else.

remember when you say things like linux must katch up, its put together by volenteers not corperations.

they dont have to do anything.

regards peter

[ghost4man]

Hi Guys,

I am going to persist with this for meantime but I have to confess Wintpe that reading your thread left me a little bit confused. Thats not to suggest that
what you have written is not clear its just that at this point in time I am out of my depth and trying to punch above my weight. I have found that the most
effective ways of communicating this sort of stuff comes via screen shots in a step by step process. As they say a picture tells a thousand words. If you
consider the importance of having to leaving a space at the end of a section in xorg.conf then it becomes obvious that you simply cant go adding and
deleting stuff without really knowing what you are doing.

At this point I have to spend some time going over your material and the other referred links but I also get the feeling that this is going to be an ongoing
problem unless addressed fully by those in the know. That will take some time as this stuff does run on the smell of an oily rag by volunteers etc.

Again thankyou for your assistance. I will try some stuff out and see how I go. Obviously I will report back even if it does not work.

Cheers Ozzie

[doktor5000]

I had the same problem with an Elantech touchpad on an Acer V5 Debian Wheezy 7.4 and had tried tried almost everything until came to this forum.
My right click button was not working and i followed the suggestion given above of modifying the file

/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf

just by adding the following at the end and restarting

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Section "InputClass"
   Identifier "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"
   MatchProduct "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"
   MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
   Driver "synaptics"
   Option "TapButton1" "1"
   Option "TapButton2" "3"
   Option "TapButton3" "2"
   Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
   Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1"
   Option "CoastingSpeed" "10"
   Option "EdgeMotionMinZ" "30"
   Option "EdgeMotionMaxZ" "40"
   Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "100"
   Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "400"
   Option "FingerLow" "9"
   Option "FingerHigh" "12"
   Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "0"
   Option "ClickPad" "True"
   Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection

It worked perfect the problems was that the system was trreating the Elantech pad as a Synaptics pad soo all areas were not being mapped
Thanks guys!

[wintpe]

I would just like to add that although ive been critical of this touchpad , that was all with respect to
mageia 2, and from hearsay, the asus supplied drivers for windows.

as from mageia 3 this touchpad works completely.

although not all features switched on by default.

but go into kde settings -> input devices and touchpad and enable all the scrolling
features and its pretty much like you hoped it would be..

regards peter