Re: Touchpad "tapping" changes in 2.6.11?

Peter Osterlund
2005-03-07T21:34:16Z

Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:10:27 +0100, Henrik Persson <root@fulhack.info> wrote:
> > Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:14:02 +0100, Henrik Persson <root@fulhack.info> wrote:
> > >
> > >>I noticed that the ALPS driver was added to 2.6.11, a thing that alot of
> > >>people probably like, but since my touchpad (Acer Aspire 1300XV) worked
> > >>perfectly before (like, 2.6.10) and now the ALPS driver disables
> > >>'hardware tapping', wich makes it hard to tap. I commented out the
> > >>disable-tapping bits in alps.c and now it's working like a charm again.
> > >
> > > Could you please try 2.6.11-mm1. It has bunch of Peter Osterlund's
> > > patches that shoudl improve the situation with tapping.
> >
> > Well, -mm1 didn't quite agree with my savage gfx drivers. But I'm
> > booting with psmouse.proto=exps now, and it's working the way I'm used
> > to now.
> >
> > The Aspire 1300-series is quite different from the 1350 ones.. The
> > touchpad on the 1300 will work like a charm without the synaptics driver
> > (but no fancy stuff is supported, I guess). Before you could boot and be
> > happy without the synaptics driver, now you probably have to install the
> > synaptics driver to be happy.. Maybe that's not so good. :)
> >
> > Could this touchpad use the "exps" proto as default and then you could
> > reconfigure if you want to use the ALPS driver..?
>
> We (well Peter and Vojtech mostly as I don't have ALPS touchpad in my
> box) are trying to make ALPS work as it was working before even
> without Synaptics X driver without any additional options, please bear
> with us.

I have some touchpad related patches in my tree, which I have uploaded
here:

http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/patches/touchpad/2.6.11/

All of these patches are already in -mm I think.

> Still I think having Synaptics driver installed is the best way in the
> end simply because it has a lot of knobs so one can adjust tpouchpad's
> behavior to his/her liking. Maybe once distibutions start packaging
> and activating it by default it will be less of an issue.

Fedora Core 3 already does that if I remember correctly.

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Peter Osterlund - petero2@telia.com