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"Multi-Touch For The X.Org Synaptics Driver Posted by Michael Larabel on October 08, 2010 Takashi Iwai of Novell/SuSE has just published a series of 18 patches for the X.Org Synaptics input driver that primarily provides multi-touch support. There's also some fixes and other changes to this Synaptics driver for X, but the primary feature is the addition of multi-touch support under Linux (and other X.Org-using operating systems) for supported hardware. It turns out that Takashi actually wrote these patches some months ago, but that Novell's legal department didn't allow him to publish the code for upstream integration over concerns of possible patent infringements. This was mentioned on the mailing list. However, after this work was independently discovered, Takashi has now went ahead and mailed out the patches for hopeful integration." On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Vladimir Hidalgo <vladimiro...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's good news Paul-Sebastian Manole, would you mind to post any > source of that information?, I would like to stay tuned for a patch. > > -- > Alps touchpad detected as ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse(in VAIO E series) after > the kernel upgrade > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/565543 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > Initially the ALPS touchpad was detected by the kernel but does not support > horizontal and vertical support but after the kernel upgrade to 10.04 > vertical scroll is working but horizontal scroll is not working. And the > kernel is not detecting the ALPS touchpad and the cat /proc/bus/input/devices > says it is a PS2 mouse .. > > This is seen in sony vaio E series in particular ... > > Also Bill in Comment #52 says > Acer Aspire One 532h (Alps touchpad). > I booted the distribution from a thumb drive, but once I installed from the > thumb drive and updated Ubuntu (10.04), I lost the touchpad (works as a > mouse) .. > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/565543/+subscribe > -- Alps touchpad detected as ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse(in VAIO E series) after the kernel upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/565543 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
