> The Windows driver provides a visualization of the regions for the hardware > edge scrolling capability. When entering that screen, a particular command > pair is sent, and the touchpad starts sending interleaved REL and ABS > packets. When leaving that screen, another particular command pair is sent, > and the touchpad resumes the normal REL only stream.
Good find! That's very crafty. I've managed to apply your patch, and can confirm that it works - my initial impressions (using it for 15 mins...) are that even 256x256 resolution absolute mode + synaptics is much better than the touchpad's built-in gesture detection. Let's work your patch into something which applies on top of the existing driver, and get it merged. Cheers! Chris