Touchpad

[Jim Gettys]

Yoshiki,

The latest kernel builds have the right kernel driver, but don't have
the right X Window System driver or configuration.

Hopefully this will get packaged and in a build very soon.
                               - Jim


On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 11:04 -0700, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
>   Hello,
> 
>   After one week of absense, I'm back and doing the various testing.
> With Build 93, the touchpad works, almost:
> 
>   * It usually tracks my finger's movement, but there is noticable
>     delay.
> 
>   * If I touch a position, say, quarter to the left edge, hold a bit
>     and release, the mouse cursor moves to about quarter to the left
>     edge of screen.  Then, I touch a position, say, quarter to the
>     right edge, the mouse cursor moves close to the other edge, even
>     if I don't move my finger *on* the pad.  This makes it hard to
>     fine tune the cursor position.
> 
>   * When I try to drag with button down, it often loses the button
>     down information.  This could be due to the "tap to click"
>     feature, and some gesture may be interpreted as tap.
> 
>   * I was trying to disable "tap to click", but making a section and a
>     InputDevice description:
> 
>     Section "InputDevice"
>        Identifier  "Mouse0"
>        Driver      "mouse"
>        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>        Option      "Device"   "/dev/input/mice"
>        Option      "ZAxisMapping"  "4 5"
>        Option      "Emulate3Buttons"  "yes"
>        Option      "MaxTapTime"       "0"
>     EndSection
> 
>     doesn't change it.  MaxTapTime is synaptics' option, so I didn't
>     really expect this to work, but can I turn off it in some other
>     way?
> 
>   I'm not sure if I explain well, but the bottom line is that it kind
> of works (yay), but there are gliches that are severe enough for real
> use.
> 
> -- Yoshiki
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Jim Gettys
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