Your v6 patch mostly works for me (3.1.0_rc7). What I am having trouble with is this comment in the code:
/* * Bits in the upper nibble of byte 3 represent the trackstick * buttons on some models, but on other models the trackstick * buttons are reported in the trackstic packets. If we try to * report the buttons on the trackstick device from here it can * lead to conflicts, so we treat any buttons reported in the * touchpad packets as belonging to the touchpad. */ I have such laptop that reports button events in touchpad packets (Dell E6420), and your approach causes two problems with my usage pattern: 1) ever since I got this computer, I've been dreaming about disabling that infernal device (touchpad) and use only the trackstick. With current code, I loose buttons. 2) even if I decide to live with touchpad enabled (your driver + syndaemon make it much more bearable) it breaks mouse wheel emulation with middle button. In Xorg, trackstick device is handled by evdev, touchpad by synaptic_drv. Only evdev knows how to do the wheel emulation, AFAIK, but it doesn't get the button events. I have put together a small patch, here: https://github.com/huancz/linux/commit/34fa799dee824b44c79b0b7641f14944dffadef7.patch So far it works OK on my computer, and the autodetection should probably work on all ALPS devices, but I lack the hardware to test it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550625 Title: Alps touchpad is recognized but synaptics clients and scrolling do not work To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/550625/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
