Re: ALPS touchpad no longer recognizing 'taps' as mouseclick in 3.3-rc3

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 09:12:43PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 06:22:21PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:12:36PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > Hi Greg,
> > > 
> > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 08:47:28AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > This problem has been since 3.3-rc1, but I only now am getting around to
> > > > reporting it, sorry about that.
> > > > 
> > > > In 3.3-rc3, my alps touchpad isn't recognizing a tap on the touchpad as
> > > > a mouse click.  Is there a new Kconfig option that I need to enable?
> > > > 
> > > > My /proc/bus/input/devices entry for this thing is:
> > > > I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=7326
> > > > N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad"
> > > > P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
> > > > S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6
> > > > U: Uniq=
> > > > H: Handlers=mouse1 event6 
> > > > B: PROP=8
> > > > B: EV=b
> > > > B: KEY=e420 70000 0 0 0 0
> > > > B: ABS=260800001000003
> > > > 
> > > > Is there anything else you need me to report to help track this down?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Please make sure you have xorg-x11-drv-synaptics installed and then
> > > check if tap to click is enabled in your DE. I think Gnome for some
> > > reason has it off my default.
> > 
> > Is this a new thing for the 3.3 kernel?  I ask as 3.2 and older kernels
> > work just fine this way.  I can do a 'git bisect' to track it down to a
> > specific patch if that will help out.
> 
> No, there is no need. I am pretty sure pre-3.3 your touchpad worked in
> PS/2 compatibility mode; in 3.3 we merged support for native multitouch
> protocol so your touchpad works in absolute mode, can support various
> gestures (vertical/hrizontal scroll, user-selected sensitivity, etc.)
> and is recognozed as a proper touchpad by the entire stack. For some
> reason though Gnome has disabled tap to click for touchpads by default.
> I do not remember what is the default for KDE.
> 
> Hope this helps.

Yes, that solved it, thanks.  The Gnome setting is in the Mouse/Trackpad
option in gnome-control-center.

I have a feeling you are going to get a lot of emails about this issue
when 3.3 is released, good luck :)

greg k-h