Re: ALPS touchpad no longer recognizing 'taps' as mouseclick in 3.3-rc3

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:12:36PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 08:47:28AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This problem has been since 3.3-rc1, but I only now am getting around to
> > reporting it, sorry about that.
> > 
> > In 3.3-rc3, my alps touchpad isn't recognizing a tap on the touchpad as
> > a mouse click.  Is there a new Kconfig option that I need to enable?
> > 
> > My /proc/bus/input/devices entry for this thing is:
> > I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=7326
> > N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad"
> > P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
> > S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6
> > U: Uniq=
> > H: Handlers=mouse1 event6 
> > B: PROP=8
> > B: EV=b
> > B: KEY=e420 70000 0 0 0 0
> > B: ABS=260800001000003
> > 
> > Is there anything else you need me to report to help track this down?
> > 
> 
> Please make sure you have xorg-x11-drv-synaptics installed and then
> check if tap to click is enabled in your DE. I think Gnome for some
> reason has it off my default.

Is this a new thing for the 3.3 kernel?  I ask as 3.2 and older kernels
work just fine this way.  I can do a 'git bisect' to track it down to a
specific patch if that will help out.

thanks,

greg k-h