Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

From: Vojtech Pavlik
Date: Thu Feb 03 2005 - 03:51:12 EST


On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:30:14AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2005, Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:07:27 +0100, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >> With a Synaptics I suppose? You wouldn't like it with an ALPS.
>
> > No, it's a Dualpoint, and so ALPS.
>
> Err... That doesn't follow. My Dell Inspiron 8000 has a Synaptics
> touchpad as part of the Dualpoint pointing devices.

Dualpoint (tm) is a trademark of ALPS, so in your case you have both a
touchpoint and a touchpad, but it's not called a Dualpoint in this case,
because it's two separate devices.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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