From: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
To: marcel@mesa.nl
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Do not use synaptics extensions by default
Date: 10 Jan 2004 21:29:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24qv3sg1k.fsf@p4.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040110194040.GA24318@joshua.mesa.nl>
"Marcel J.E. Mol" <marcel@mesa.nl> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 02:28:49PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 January 2004 12:59 pm, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > ..aka "make synaptics touchpad usable in 2.6.1" -- synaptics support
> > > is not really suitable to be enabled by default. You can not click by
> > > tapping the touchpad (well, unless you have very new X with right
> > > configuration, but than you can't go back to 2.4),
> >
> > It is my understanding that by setting "Protocol" to "auto-dev" and
> > "Device" to "/dev/psaux" you can freely switch between 2.4 and 2.5.
>
> I work with this setting for a couple of weeks now switching between 2.4
> and 2.6. The touchpad works quite well in X. (Dell inspiron 8000).
> I only notice I have to tap harder to get a click.
You can adjust the sensitivity by changing the FingerLow and
FingerHigh XFree86 driver parameters. They control how much finger
pressure is needed before it counts as a touch. (There are two
parameters to get a hysteresis effect.)
--
Peter Osterlund - petero2@telia.com
http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-10 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-10 17:59 Pavel Machek
2004-01-10 18:52 ` Sean Neakums
2004-01-10 19:28 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-01-10 19:40 ` Marcel J.E. Mol
2004-01-10 19:46 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-10 20:29 ` Peter Osterlund [this message]
2004-01-10 19:51 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-10 19:56 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-10 20:10 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-10 20:15 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-10 23:52 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-01-11 8:13 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-10 19:30 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-10 19:44 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-10 19:55 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-10 20:18 ` Sean Neakums
2004-01-10 20:23 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-10 20:49 ` Sean Neakums
2004-01-10 21:33 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-01-10 21:47 ` Sean Neakums
2004-01-10 23:42 ` Dax Kelson
2004-01-11 8:12 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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