From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Lukasz Stelmach <stlman@poczta.fm>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use multitouch touchpad events as buttons mousedev
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:13:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090418221313.GB30524@dtor-d630.eng.vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49EA1392.5060008@poczta.fm>
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 07:53:22PM +0200, Lukasz Stelmach wrote:
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> Dmitry Torokhov pisze:
> > Hi Lukasz,
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 02:03:22AM +0100, Lukasz Stelmach wrote:
> >> Some touchpads can recognize multi-finger taps. They can be used as
> >> additional buttons (left and middle).
> >>
> >
> > mousedev is a legacy interface and I don't think this change is needed
> > since evdev + Synaptics X driver combination works much better with
> > touchpads anyway.
>
> That is true, however, I happen to use plain old virtual terminal with
> gpm which uses mousedev. Having that multitouch buttons is, I assure you,
> awesome.
>
I see. In this case I suggest switching GPM to use evdev protocol. Since
I added what I cosider proper evdev support for GPM a few years ago it
should work OK without need to patch mousedev.
--
Dmitry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-18 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-09 1:03 Lukasz Stelmach
2009-04-16 2:11 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-04-18 17:53 ` Lukasz Stelmach
2009-04-18 22:13 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
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