[SOLVED] Can't configure touchpad in Plasma

[maracuja]

This concerns a fresh install of Mga6 64-bit Plasma on a laptop with an AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad (according to MCC). The touchpad works as such, including mouse click emulation, but most of the options under touchpad in the Plasma system settings are shaded out and can't be adjusted. I would like to change tap detection times, sensitivity and speed, but can't.

In Mga5 copying in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf from a ROSA live disk, where tap-to-click worked, solved the issue. That approach doesn't work this time. In addition to ./50-synaptics.conf, I copied ~/.kde4/share/config/touchpadrc from Mga5 to ~/.kde/share/config/touchpadrc in Mga6, but there seems to be no change either way.

Are there any configuration files that I have missed? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I find having the touchpad set just right is crucial.

Thanks.

[doktor5000]

It would probably help if you could add the output as regular user of

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xinput list
synclient -l

and also a copy of /var/log/Xorg.0.log

And please remove the files you added in place.

[maracuja]

I removed the files - I get that wasn't a good way to solve the problem.

xinput and synclient both gave a "command not found".

After installing xinput and x11-driver-input-synaptics the settings are all available. That solved it. Thank you very much for the help.

[doktor5000]

What mageia installation media did you use initially for your installation ?

[maracuja]

I used the live DVD.

[wintpe]

When i saw this, i thought id check mine, as i had not given the mouse pad a detailed look on my asus ux31a, since i moved from 5 -> 6

and yes same, settings all greyed out, installed suggested driver , reboot and fixed.

I installed using classic DVD.

regards peter

[doktor5000]

Well, this should be reported so that there's at least a chance this can get fixed for the next Mageia release. See: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly
For completeness's sake and also to allow others to follow up on that bug report, please also post the link to it here in the thread, thanks.

[maracuja]

Turns out it already has been reported for Cauldron here: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20339
Installing the synaptics driver to fix it is also mentioned.