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From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
To: Felix Zweig <f.zweig@yahoo.de>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ALPS touchpad recognized as Generic Wheel Mouse
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:47:59 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111121144759.GB6736@thinkpad-t410> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EC95D0B.4070407@yahoo.de>

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 09:03:23PM +0100, Felix Zweig wrote:
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> The following refers to the same Touchpad as in bug #15893 (ALPS in an
> Acer Aspire 532h).
> 
> The device is recognized as "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as
> /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5" instead of a touchpad; at
> least since Linux 3.0 (and up to 3.2-rc2).
> 
> As one result, middle mouse button emulation doesn't work. IIRC, evdev
> disabled it for non-touchpad inputs a while ago.
> 
> Is there a way to have the device recognized correctly as a touchpad (as
> it used to be a few versions earlier, unfortunately I can't remember
> which versions worked).

I sent some patches that should be in 3.3 that will get your touchpad
working, with the exception of multitouch (the 532h is one of the
machines I used to develop the patches). You can find the patches in the
following locations if you'd like to give them a try.

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/7/433
  http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git

      reply	other threads:[~2011-11-21 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-20 20:03 ALPS touchpad recognized as Generic Wheel Mouse Felix Zweig
2011-11-21 14:47 ` Seth Forshee [this message]

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