how to default to TOUCHPAD_MODE_PENTABLET?

[Paul Fox]

walter wrote:
 > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin at pobox.com> wrote:
 > > In our climate, XO-1 pen tablet mode is usually more reliable than mouse
 > > mode. I want to start in pen pablet mode by default. For Sugar, I got
 > > this effect by changing the initialization in the frame's touchpad
 > > control. This only works for Sugar mode though. How do you suggest I
 > > change the default in Gnome mode?
 > 
 > You could write a script to mimic the same behavior as in touchpad.py
 > 
 > Wrtie to '/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/hgpk_mode'
 > 

i think you can also set the initial default with a module
parameter.  something like this:
    options psmouse hgpk_mode=pentablet
in /etc/modprobe.conf  (or in some file under /etc/modprobe.d).
i don't have an XO-1 handy to try this with, i'm afraid.

paul

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