I found these configurations and "classes" using the xinput utility on Linux Mint. Hours of documentation-crawling and googling yielded no information about them. Can anyone tell me what they are, where to find them, and if it is possible to edit them?
I ask because I recently installed Linux Mint Mate (17.2) on my laptop and the touchpad is incorrectly configured. It works like a touchscreen, zipping the cursor to a new location whenever I touch it. My hours of googling hinted that in the lines I printed below, its mode should be "dependant" instead of "direct".
Thanks, here's the stuff I found:
xinput list --long
prints the following:
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
Reporting 9 classes:
Class originated from: 11. Type: XIButtonClass
Buttons supported: 16
Button labels: "Button Unknown" "Button Unknown" "Button Unknown" "Button Wheel Up" "Button Wheel Down" "Button Horiz Wheel Left" "Button Horiz Wheel Right" None None None None None None None None None
Button state:
Class originated from: 11. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 0:
Label: Abs MT Position X
Range: 0.000000 - 3312.000000
Resolution: 10000 units/m
Mode: absolute
Current value: 1369.000000
Class originated from: 11. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 1:
Label: Abs MT Position Y
Range: 0.000000 - 1872.000000
Resolution: 10000 units/m
Mode: absolute
Current value: 1872.000000
Class originated from: 11. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 2:
Label: Abs MT Touch Major
Range: 0.000000 - 255.000000
Resolution: 1000 units/m
Mode: absolute
Current value: 2.000000
Class originated from: 11. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 3:
Label: Abs MT Touch Minor
Range: 0.000000 - 255.000000
Resolution: 1000 units/m
Mode: absolute
Current value: 1.000000
Class originated from: 11. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 4:
Label: Abs MT Orientation
Range: 0.000000 - 1.000000
Resolution: 0 units/m
Mode: absolute
Current value: 1.000000
Class originated from: 11. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 5:
Label: Abs MT Tool X
Range: 0.000000 - 3312.000000
Resolution: 10000 units/m
Mode: absolute
Current value: 1369.000000
Class originated from: 11. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 6:
Label: Abs MT Tool Y
Range: 0.000000 - 1872.000000
Resolution: 10000 units/m
Mode: absolute
Current value: 1872.000000
Class originated from: 11. Type: XITouchClass
Touch mode: direct
Max number of touches: 5
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
Reporting 3 classes:
Class originated from: 4. Type: XIButtonClass
Buttons supported: 10
Button labels: "Button Left" "Button Middle" "Button Right" "Button Wheel Up" "Button Wheel Down" "Button Horiz Wheel Left" "Button Horiz Wheel Right" None None None
Button state:
Class originated from: 4. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 0:
Label: Rel X
Range: -1.000000 - -1.000000
Resolution: 0 units/m
Mode: relative
Class originated from: 4. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 1:
Label: Rel Y
Range: -1.000000 - -1.000000
Resolution: 0 units/m
Mode: relative
⎜ ↳ ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
Reporting 10 classes:
Class originated from: 14. Type: XIButtonClass
Buttons supported: 12
Button labels: "Button Left" "Button Middle" "Button Right" "Button Wheel Up" "Button Wheel Down" "Button Horiz Wheel Left" "Button Horiz Wheel Right" None None None None None
Button state:
Class originated from: 14. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 0:
Label: Rel X
Range: 0.000000 - 3249.000000
Resolution: 33000 units/m
Mode: relative
Class originated from: 14. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 1:
Label: Rel Y
Range: 0.000000 - 2223.000000
Resolution: 33000 units/m
Mode: relative
Class originated from: 14. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 2:
Label: Rel Horiz Scroll
Range: 0.000000 - -1.000000
Resolution: 0 units/m
Mode: relative
Class originated from: 14. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 3:
Label: Rel Vert Scroll
Range: 0.000000 - -1.000000
Resolution: 0 units/m
Mode: relative
Class originated from: 14. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 4:
Label: Abs MT Touch Major
Range: 0.000000 - 2565.000000
Resolution: 0 units/m
Mode: absolute
Current value: 0.000000
Class originated from: 14. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 5:
Label: Abs MT Pressure
Range: 0.000000 - 255.000000
Resolution: 0 units/m
Mode: absolute
Current value: 0.000000
Class originated from: 14. Type: XIScrollClass
Scroll info for Valuator 2
type: 2 (horizontal)
increment: 78.000000
flags: 0x0
Class originated from: 14. Type: XIScrollClass
Scroll info for Valuator 3
type: 1 (vertical)
increment: 78.000000
flags: 0x0
Class originated from: 14. Type: XITouchClass
Touch mode: direct
Max number of touches: 5
⎜ ↳ 2.4G Wireless Wireless Receiver id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
Reporting 7 classes:
Class originated from: 9. Type: XIButtonClass
Buttons supported: 16
Button labels: "Button Left" "Button Middle" "Button Right" "Button Wheel Up" "Button Wheel Down" "Button Horiz Wheel Left" "Button Horiz Wheel Right" "Button Side" "Button Extra" "Button Forward" "Button Back" "Button Task" "Button Unknown" "Button Unknown" "Button Unknown" "Button Unknown"
Button state:
Class originated from: 9. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 0:
Label: Rel X
Range: -1.000000 - -1.000000
Resolution: 1 units/m
Mode: relative
Class originated from: 9. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 1:
Label: Rel Y
Range: -1.000000 - -1.000000
Resolution: 1 units/m
Mode: relative
Class originated from: 9. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 2:
Label: Rel Horiz Wheel
Range: -1.000000 - -1.000000
Resolution: 1 units/m
Mode: relative
Class originated from: 9. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 3:
Label: Rel Vert Wheel
Range: -1.000000 - -1.000000
Resolution: 1 units/m
Mode: relative
Class originated from: 9. Type: XIScrollClass
Scroll info for Valuator 2
type: 2 (horizontal)
increment: 1.000000
flags: 0x0
Class originated from: 9. Type: XIScrollClass
Scroll info for Valuator 3
type: 1 (vertical)
increment: -1.000000
flags: 0x2 ( preferred )
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
Reporting 1 classes:
Class originated from: 13. Type: XIKeyClass
Keycodes supported: 248
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
Reporting 1 classes:
Class originated from: 5. Type: XIKeyClass
Keycodes supported: 248
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
Reporting 1 classes:
Class originated from: 6. Type: XIKeyClass
Keycodes supported: 248
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
Reporting 1 classes:
Class originated from: 7. Type: XIKeyClass
Keycodes supported: 248
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
Reporting 1 classes:
Class originated from: 8. Type: XIKeyClass
Keycodes supported: 248
↳ USB2.0 UVC HD Webcam id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
Reporting 1 classes:
Class originated from: 10. Type: XIKeyClass
Keycodes supported: 248
↳ Asus WMI hotkeys id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
Reporting 1 classes:
Class originated from: 12. Type: XIKeyClass
Keycodes supported: 248
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
Reporting 1 classes:
Class originated from: 13. Type: XIKeyClass
Keycodes supported: 248
