Touchpad hacking, who to talk to before commencing work

Touchpad hacking, who to talk to before commencing work

[Carl]

Hi everybody, this is my first post to the list.

I have a new mbp 5, and I've been frustrated at the basicness of its
operation compared to its functionality under osx. My original plan
was to simply open
up the bcm5974 and create a deadzone at the bottom of the touch pad so
I could rest my thumb there and click. Configuration through synaptics
doesnt seem to work for some reason.

Anyway, to make a long story short, I had a bit too much fun with the
trackpad and watching it track all 10 fingers, and now I'd like to
implement some
more advanced functionality. As a quick hack, I could theoretically do
this inside the driver itself, but it would be better to write a new
input handler.

Is anyone currently working on something similar. I dont want to be
reinventing the wheel.

Cheers guys.

-- 
Carl

Re: Touchpad hacking, who to talk to before commencing work

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:05:43PM +1000, Carl wrote:

> I have a new mbp 5, and I've been frustrated at the basicness of its
> operation compared to its functionality under osx. My original plan
> was to simply open
> up the bcm5974 and create a deadzone at the bottom of the touch pad so
> I could rest my thumb there and click. Configuration through synaptics
> doesnt seem to work for some reason.

Post-processing the output is probably better done in the synaptics 
driver at the X level.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org