ALDP touchpad and Linux Mint 10

elrasho · 23 Mar 2011 at 13:12

I have a HP Mini 311c that has an ALPS touchpad. Linux Mint detects it as a mouse and so when I try to increase the speed of the mouse, nothing actually happens.

I've done some google searches and found this: http://thedaneshproject.com/posts/improve-alps-touchpad-response-speed/

Before I go and make any changes, can somebody advise it's safe to do this?.... I'm a Linux noob

elrasho · 23 Mar 2011 at 13:17

thanks whiterocke, I don't suppose you know a way I can increase the mouse speed through command line?

elrasho · 23 Mar 2011 at 23:15

xset m 22 works for me

How can I set this up so I dont have to keep typing this in everytime I switch my netbook on?

elrasho · 24 Mar 2011 at 00:02

Thanks for the info but Im struggling, I typed that into Terminal but nothing happens

Im a total Linux noob by the way

elrasho · 24 Mar 2011 at 00:42

I followed this youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9tnMfQpu9c) and entered

#!bin/bash

xset m 5 2

as my script and added it to the startup applications list but it has no affect on reboot. What am I doing wrong? Please help this is really bugging me lol

elrasho · 24 Mar 2011 at 01:22

I thought it may have been a permissions issue so I made myself Admin and gave all groups read/write permissions for the srartup-script.hl script I created. It still doeant run on startup

I can double click the script file and run it that way but I want it to autorun on startup. Please can anyone help, Id be eternaly greatfull

elrasho · 24 Mar 2011 at 07:10

I noticed that straight after I sign in the mouse speed is as I want it, but then after about 3 seconds goes back to the default speed

I've tried copying the script to the init.d folder but still no luck

elrasho · 24 Mar 2011 at 17:12

Here are all the input devices Mint sees:

xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HP Webcam-50 id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HP WMI hotkeys id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]

Does this look ok? I have to Mice apparently, could that be the problem?