Touchpad/tablet problem

Richard A. Smith richard at laptop.org
Mon Dec 29 21:20:49 EST 2008


John Watlington wrote:
> 
> On Dec 29, 2008, at 9:15 PM, david at lang.hm wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Richard A. Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Greg Smith wrote:
>>>> Hopefully one of the touchpad/firmware experts can give you a link to
>>>> how you can capture and use raw data generated by the touchpad.
>>>
>>> The datasheet is here:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Touch_Pad/Tablet
>>> ...
>>> Be warned however that sometime in Jan/Feb the XO production line will
>>> switch to a Synaptics device rather than an ALPS device and the
>>> Synaptics device does _not_ have any resistive features.
>>
>> two questions
>>
>> 1. will the new device be full width, or just the current touchpad width?
> 
> It will be the size of the current touchpad, sitting under a slightly 
> depressed
> portion of the front bezel.

A quick measurement shows its 44mm x 60mm.

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Richard Smith  <richard at laptop.org>
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