Sensitivity of Synaptics pointing stick

Hi,

it looks like I have a Synaptics pointing stick on my Lifebook E8110,
connected as PS/2 pass-through device via a Synaptics touchpad. It
works, but it is horribly insensitive, making me crack my fingers
regularly. Is anyone aware of a way to tune the sensitivity of this
device (like one can do with Thinkpad trackpoints)?

I once had Windows on this box, but I don't recall anymore if it came
with some tuning software, thus I don't know if the hardware can be
tuned at all. If it can be tuned, are "just" the specs lacking? Did
anyone already try to obtain them from Synaptics?

Jan

Hi, Jan,

Jan Kiszka wrote:

Hi,

it looks like I have a Synaptics pointing stick on my Lifebook E8110,
connected as PS/2 pass-through device via a Synaptics touchpad. It
works, but it is horribly insensitive, making me crack my fingers
regularly. Is anyone aware of a way to tune the sensitivity of this
device (like one can do with Thinkpad trackpoints)?

It's strange, because I have the same laptop and both touch pad and touch
stick are working very well. Try setting MinSpeed, MaxSpeed, AccelFactor
and TrackstickSpeed parameters.

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry

Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:

Hi, Jan,

Jan Kiszka wrote:

quoted

Hi,

it looks like I have a Synaptics pointing stick on my Lifebook E8110,
connected as PS/2 pass-through device via a Synaptics touchpad. It
works, but it is horribly insensitive, making me crack my fingers
regularly. Is anyone aware of a way to tune the sensitivity of this
device (like one can do with Thinkpad trackpoints)?

It's strange, because I have the same laptop and both touch pad and touch
stick are working very well. Try setting MinSpeed, MaxSpeed, AccelFactor
and TrackstickSpeed parameters.

It doesn't like me: I do not see any impact. Could you send me your
XF11Config to crosscheck?

TIA,
Jan

Jan Kiszka wrote:

Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:

quoted

Hi, Jan,

Jan Kiszka wrote:

quoted

Hi,

it looks like I have a Synaptics pointing stick on my Lifebook E8110,
connected as PS/2 pass-through device via a Synaptics touchpad. It
works, but it is horribly insensitive, making me crack my fingers
regularly. Is anyone aware of a way to tune the sensitivity of this
device (like one can do with Thinkpad trackpoints)?

It's strange, because I have the same laptop and both touch pad and
touch stick are working very well. Try setting MinSpeed, MaxSpeed,

Hi, Ian,

quoted

AccelFactor and TrackstickSpeed parameters.

It doesn't like me: I do not see any impact. Could you send me your
XF11Config to crosscheck?

Sure:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
        Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "0"
        Option          "SHMConfig"             "true"
EndSection

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry

Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:

Jan Kiszka wrote:

quoted

Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:

quoted

Hi, Jan,

Jan Kiszka wrote:

quoted

Hi,

it looks like I have a Synaptics pointing stick on my Lifebook E8110,
connected as PS/2 pass-through device via a Synaptics touchpad. It
works, but it is horribly insensitive, making me crack my fingers
regularly. Is anyone aware of a way to tune the sensitivity of this
device (like one can do with Thinkpad trackpoints)?

It's strange, because I have the same laptop and both touch pad and
touch stick are working very well. Try setting MinSpeed, MaxSpeed,

Hi, Ian,

quoted

quoted

AccelFactor and TrackstickSpeed parameters.

It doesn't like me: I do not see any impact. Could you send me your
XF11Config to crosscheck?

Sure:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
        Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "0"
        Option          "SHMConfig"             "true"
EndSection

Hmm, but that's for the touchpad, not the trackpoint. And it doesn't
contain any sensitivity parameters. /me is confused.

Jan