Re: synaptics touchpad doesn't click

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 07:50:54AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:59:34 -0800,
> Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 06:05:06PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> > > * Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > > >
> > > > The updated patch is below.
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Dmitry
> > > 
> > > Should I test this one or wait one more iteration to address
> > > Takashi's last comments?
> > > 
> > 
> > Actually I think we took the wrong direction with the original patch and
> > we should do what other buttonless devices (bcm5974) do: report touchpad
> > click as left button and have Synaptics X driver provide enhanced
> > support. This way we can have both modes (ClickZones and ClickButtons)
> > and users will get to chose (provided that someone takes time to add
> > that support to Synaptics driver of course ;) ).
> 
> My concern is, still, how would you identify this device.  Will you
> extend also some ioctls to expose caps and extcaps?  Otherwise it's
> difficult to identify this device automatically from the user-space.
> 

No.. Synaptics without right button == ClickPad.

> The user-space can know that it's button-less, yes.  But, how can it
> know whether the device should be emulated via ClickZone?
> We can use a driver option to x11 synaptics driver for that, as I
> already sent you another patch.  However, the driver option is
> nowadays not preferred because xorg.conf is being dead on new
> systems...

Driver still takes options, from UDEV/HAL. We could pick one behavior
by default and ovverride, by box vendor/model (DMI).

> 
> Or maybe HAL (or whatever upcoming one) can check the vendor/product
> id of the machine (not the device) to provide the information.  OTOH
> this will also need frequent updates.

Hopefully vendors won;t be flip/flopping between ClickZone and
ClickButtons too much. Still option is better than hardcoding ClickZone
for everyone.

-- 
Dmitry
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