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From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>,
	Peter Berg Larsen <pebl@math.ku.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix synaptics driver for PowerPro C 3:16
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:55:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031111215526.GA31707@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2llqmy7cd.fsf@p4.localdomain>

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:32:18PM +0100, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> A user reported that the synaptics touchpad driver didn't work on his
> PowerPro C 3:16 laptop. Some debugging revealed that the patch below
> is necessary to make the driver compatible with his touchpad.
> 
> For some reason bit 3 in byte 1 and 4 in the synaptics packets are set
> to 1, which fails because the driver follows the documentation which
> says that the bit is 0.
> 
> Hardware properties: (reported by synclient -h)
>      Model Id     = 009d48b1
>      Capabilities = 00904713
>      Identity     = 00084715
> 
> With this patch, the touchpad works as expected. As far as I can see,
> this patch can not break anything for other touchpads, so it should be
> safe. Does anyone see a problem with this patch?

I think this could help some Dell laptops as well (also always reporting
lost sync). Good.

> --- linux/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c.old	2003-11-11 20:41:15.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c	2003-11-11 20:41:29.000000000 +0100
> @@ -581,7 +581,7 @@
>  
>  	switch (psmouse->pktcnt) {
>  	case 1:
> -		if (newabs ? ((data & 0xC8) != 0x80) : ((data & 0xC0) != 0xC0)) {
> +		if (newabs ? ((data & 0xC0) != 0x80) : ((data & 0xC0) != 0xC0)) {
>  			printk(KERN_WARNING "Synaptics driver lost sync at 1st byte\n");
>  			goto bad_sync;
>  		}
> @@ -593,7 +593,7 @@
>  		}
>  		break;
>  	case 4:
> -		if (newabs ? ((data & 0xC8) != 0xC0) : ((data & 0xC0) != 0x80)) {
> +		if (newabs ? ((data & 0xC0) != 0xC0) : ((data & 0xC0) != 0x80)) {
>  			printk(KERN_WARNING "Synaptics driver lost sync at 4th byte\n");
>  			goto bad_sync;
>  		}
> 
> -- 
> Peter Osterlund - petero2@telia.com
> http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR

      reply	other threads:[~2003-11-11 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-11 20:32 [PATCH] Fix synaptics driver for PowerPro C 3:16 Peter Osterlund
2003-11-11 21:55 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]

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