Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>]

On Wednesday 02 February 2005 17:27, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:52:03 -0800 (PST), Peter Osterlund
> > <petero2@telia.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >        if (mousedev->touch) {
> > > +               size = dev->absmax[ABS_X] - dev->absmin[ABS_X];
> > > +               if (size == 0) size = xres;
> >
> > Sorry, missed this piece first time around. Since we don't want to
> > rely on screen size anymore I think we should set size = 256 *
> > FRACTION_DENOM / 2 if device limits are not set up to just report raw
> > coords. What do you think?
> 
> I think that this case can't happen until we add support for some other
> touchpad that doesn't set the absmin/absmax variables. Both alps and
> synaptics currently set them.
> 
> However, the fallback value should definitely not depend on
> FRACTION_DENOM, since this constant doesn't affect the mouse speed at all.

Oh, yes, we divide by FRACTION_DENOM later. So having size = 256 * 2
should undo all scaling and report coordinates one for one which I think
is a reasonable solution if device did not set it's size.

-- 
Dmitry