Re: Touchpad "tapping" changes in 2.6.11?

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Mon Mar 07 2005 - 08:59:04 EST


On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:14:02 +0100, Henrik Persson <root@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> I noticed that the ALPS driver was added to 2.6.11, a thing that alot of
> people probably like, but since my touchpad (Acer Aspire 1300XV) worked
> perfectly before (like, 2.6.10) and now the ALPS driver disables
> 'hardware tapping', wich makes it hard to tap. I commented out the
> disable-tapping bits in alps.c and now it's working like a charm again.
>

Hi,

Could you please try 2.6.11-mm1. It has bunch of Peter Osterlund's
patches that shoudl improve the situation with tapping.

> Maybe the hardware tapping-thing should be configurable via some boot or
> config option?
>

After all quirks are worked out I think tapping will be controlled via
mousedev.tap_time parameter when using legacy interfaces
(dev/input/mouseX) and Peter's X driver when using native event
interface.

--
Dmitry
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