Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:10:27 +0100, Henrik Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:14:02 +0100, Henrik Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > >>I noticed that the ALPS driver was added to 2.6.11, a thing that alot of > > >>people probably like, but since my touchpad (Acer Aspire 1300XV) worked > > >>perfectly before (like, 2.6.10) and now the ALPS driver disables > > >>'hardware tapping', wich makes it hard to tap. I commented out the > > >>disable-tapping bits in alps.c and now it's working like a charm again. > > > > > > Could you please try 2.6.11-mm1. It has bunch of Peter Osterlund's > > > patches that shoudl improve the situation with tapping. > > > > Well, -mm1 didn't quite agree with my savage gfx drivers. But I'm > > booting with psmouse.proto=exps now, and it's working the way I'm used > > to now. > > > > The Aspire 1300-series is quite different from the 1350 ones.. The > > touchpad on the 1300 will work like a charm without the synaptics driver > > (but no fancy stuff is supported, I guess). Before you could boot and be > > happy without the synaptics driver, now you probably have to install the > > synaptics driver to be happy.. Maybe that's not so good. :) > > > > Could this touchpad use the "exps" proto as default and then you could > > reconfigure if you want to use the ALPS driver..? > > We (well Peter and Vojtech mostly as I don't have ALPS touchpad in my > box) are trying to make ALPS work as it was working before even > without Synaptics X driver without any additional options, please bear > with us.
I have some touchpad related patches in my tree, which I have uploaded here: http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/patches/touchpad/2.6.11/ All of these patches are already in -mm I think. > Still I think having Synaptics driver installed is the best way in the > end simply because it has a lot of knobs so one can adjust tpouchpad's > behavior to his/her liking. Maybe once distibutions start packaging > and activating it by default it will be less of an issue. Fedora Core 3 already does that if I remember correctly. -- Peter Osterlund - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.telia.com/~u89404340 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/