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SubjectRe: ALPS tapping disabled. WHY?
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 10:08:15PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> > So now, can anyone explain what bit 3 of param[0] does, and why you would
> > want to disable hardware tapping support when it's set? My pad (ALPS
> > 56AAA1760C on a Sager NP8560V) has always worked with hardware tapping as a
> > plain PS/2 mouse, no special ALPS support req'd.
> >
> > Can this disabling of hardware tapping support be made optional (boot time
> > param or other)? I don't want to have to patch every kernel from here on
> > out.
> >
>
> It still should do software tap emulation (although support is a bit flakey
> with ALPS I must admit, but there are patches that should improve it) - so
> people who don't like tapping can deactivate it.
>
> Anyway, "psmouse.proto=exps" boot option should disable ALPS native mode and
> restore previous behavior.

Also, in my tree currently (and planned for 2.6.12) hardware tapping is
enabled again, because double taps don't work otherwise (hardware
limitation).

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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