Re: ALPS touchpad issues still exist in 2.6.12-rc4h

Roman Zippel
2005-06-25T12:37:13Z

Hi,

On Tue, 10 May 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> > More than this, with every kernel (at least since the very early 2.4
> > ones) up to 2.6.10 the ALPS touchpad has worked just fine through
> > input/mice or the psaux device - why has this changed in 2.6.11,
>
> Because some people do not want tapping and some people do not like
> default sensitivity and some like having virtual scrolling while other
> want to have different actions assigned to corner taps.

I skipped 2.6.11 on my laptop, so I'm only noticing this problem now.
You didn't really answer the question, why has the _default_ been changed,
giving users the possibility to change the defaults is fine, but why is it
necessary to break existing setups?

bye, Roman