synclient dead

[lengheletto]

Hi there, need to ask the community about an issue i'm having after a fresh install of centOS 7 on my laptop.
Thing is that i have no control over mouse options and also there's no option for two finger scroll under system tools->settings->mouse options.
So i went to check on x11 drivers and the package "xorg-x11-drv-synaptics.x86_64 1.7.1-13.el7" is installed.
Problem is that when i run command "synclient" from terminal, it returns "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?"
So I checked on path /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf and the file its there with my custom configuration that is the following:

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad catchall"
Driver "synaptics"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "2"
Option "TapButton3" "3"
Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "on"
Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "on"
Option "CircularScrolling" "on"
Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "40"
Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "8"
Option "CoastingSpeed" "0"
Option "FingerLow" "35"
Option "FingerHigh" "40"

EndSection


so ehm, am i missing something?

[TrevorH]

Most likely you don't have a synaptics controller if the module is not loaded.

[lengheletto]

xinput list gives:

Virtual core pointer

virtual core xtest pointer
ps/2 Logitech wheel mouse

donnow if this could be any use but couple of weeks ago i've tried kernel version 7.1 on same laptop and i had the "two finger scroll" option within mouse settings.

[lengheletto]

so it seems that it reads my touchpad as a mouse and thats why im having this sort of issue?
the "dmesg |grep pnp" points that i have IDs FLT0101 (focaltech?)
any ideas?

[wayneeusa]

I have essentially the same issue. Did you ever find a resolution?