Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

Dmitry Torokhov
2005-04-05T18:44:52Z

On Apr 5, 2005 1:20 PM, Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> wrote:
> Jaco Kroon wrote:
> > Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> >>>OT: I think I prefer synaptics multi-finger tapping to the tapping in
> >>>specific locations to get right and middle clicking, but that is another
> >>>story that probably has nothing to do with the kernel, and quite likely
> >>>something that is configurable in the synaptics xorg driver.
> >>
> >> You should be able to control that in xorg.conf.
> >
> > My thoughts exactly. The same goes for gpm.
>
> No. AFAIK multifinger taps are handled by the touchpad firmware, but not
> on ALPS touchpads, only on synaptics.
>

Yes, you are right... I meant one could remap actions to corner and
multi-finger taps in xorg.conf but if hardware does not recognize
multi-finger taps then you are out of luck.

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Dmitry