Re: MBP17 touchpad/synaptics settings/sensitivity

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 09:11:59PM +1000, thus spake Will Parker:
> How enlightening!  Thank you very much.  I patched the source and found
> that it is incompatible with the Synaptics setup (and synclient reported
> very different values) and I couldn't get syaptics to work properly. 

Of course values are very different, since the resolution is changed.  You
have to use synclient to figure out the new values to use in your setup.  One
question remains: is the touchpad in the 17" version the same size as in the
15"?

> After commenting it out the appletouch response in native mode is *much*
> improved.  The sensitivity is right up there with the IBM and Mactel in
> OSX however it is still darting to the pointer quite randomly without
> getting any touchpad input - unless it is to do with my palms reasting on
> the Mac's chassis near the touchpad ??!.

I found that very annoying too.  One easy way to prevent that is to use
syndaemon, but it may not be as convenient as it seems, since the touchpad
remains unusable right after typing.  I know these touchpads should be capable
of palm detection, but I did not manage to make that work yet.

>                                           I had to reboot and comment out
> my synaptics setup to get back to the appletouch manager but now it seems
> to be very good resolution just not accelerated or with additional button
> support.
> 
> Hmmm, must be a way to get the resolution passed successfully to synaptics
> no?

What to you mean?

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