From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Hutterer Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: Add support for the Bamboo Touch trackpad Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:44:37 +1000 Message-ID: <20100831054437.GA14760@barra.redhat.com> References: <1282486241-8855-1-git-send-email-rydberg@euromail.se> <4C7B7595.6060904@euromail.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from leo.clearchain.com ([199.73.29.74]:14630 "EHLO mail.clearchain.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751919Ab0HaFn7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:43:59 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Bagwell Cc: Henrik Rydberg , Dmitry Torokhov , Ping Cheng , linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:19:49AM -0500, Chris Bagwell wrote: > Hi Henrik, >=20 > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Henrik Rydberg = wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > > >>> 1) It uses the MT slot protocol > >>> 2) It creates two input devices, but only one is useful > >> > >> No biggy to userspace. =A0I'm assuming for unused input device tha= t > >> hardware is still reporting a HID_USAGE_STYLUS and probably you co= uld > >> catch that and not register that input device. > > > > > > The initial idea was to only use the trackpad usb endnode, but the = device does > > not work at all after boot unless the silent endnode is somehow tak= en into > > account. I am not sure what your statement refers to. > > > >>> 3) It works well with the synaptics and multitouch X drivers > >>> 4) It does not work well with the wacom X driver (!) > >> > >> Once we finalize input events sent, I'm sure we could get > >> xf86-input-wacom to play nice with this synaptic-style input event= s. > >> The harder part is to develop userspace rules to assign this "waco= m" > >> input device to something other than xf86-input-wacom; especially = in > >> case were tablet has pen and touch input devices. > > > > > > Using udev rules, the pen device is picked up by the wacom X driver= and the > > touch device is picked up by the synaptics X driver. It does not se= em anything > > extra is needed here. >=20 > You mean your wacom touch device are being directed to synaptics X > driver without modifications to udev or similar rules? On my > unmodified Fedora box, they both go to wacom X driver. >=20 > Not that it would be a difficult modification... I'd just need to mak= e > those and work with distributions to also align. 50-wacom.conf sorts after 50-synaptics.conf and since we apply the waco= m driver to anything with Wacom in the product name, it overrides the synaptics setting. not a big deal at all, just renaming it to 40-wacom.= conf should already do the job. Cheers, Peter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html