From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262344AbTL2CF6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:05:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262352AbTL2CFe (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:05:34 -0500 Received: from smtp1.att.ne.jp ([165.76.15.137]:16883 "EHLO smtp1.att.ne.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262328AbTL2CFT (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:05:19 -0500 Message-ID: <18cf01c3cdb0$2ab1cf20$43ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> From: "Norman Diamond" To: "Peter Osterlund" Cc: References: <173901c3cceb$02d68560$43ee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> Subject: Re: 2.6.0 and mice Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 11:04:14 +0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.