Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | "Norman Diamond" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0 and mice | Date | Mon, 29 Dec 2003 11:04:14 +0900 |
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Peter Osterlund replied to me:
> > 2. Also in Input device support, there is a section on Mice, PS/2 mouse, > > and Synaptics TouchPad. These I compiled in and they don't seem to be > > causing any problems. It seems that the Alps TouchPad is being recognized > > as an Intelli/Wheel mouse instead of being recognized as a Synaptics > > TouchPad, which is unfortunate but not really causing any problems. I've > > read that Synaptics is most common in foreign countries but Alps is most > > common in Japan. > > The synaptics kernel driver doesn't try to recognize alps touchpads.
I guess that explains why the Synaptics driver didn't cause any problems :-)
> However, in the XFree86 driver > http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html > there is a kernel patch (alps.patch) that makes the kernel recognize > alps touchpads and generate data compatible with the XFree86 synaptics > driver.
Looking at that page, I'll guess that SuSE 8.2's version of XFree86 probably already has that patch, because under X the touchpad is performing more than half of those operations correctly already.
> It doesn't work perfectly though, at least not for some hardware. The > problem seems to be how to interpret the gesture bit in the alps mouse > packets.
That's OK, Alps supplies notebook vendors with drivers for Monopolysoft OSes, and it seems that Alps hasn't completely got this working correctly either.
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