Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

[Peter Osterlund]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Pete Zaitcev wrote:

> On 02 Feb 2005 21:57:39 +0100, Peter Osterlund <petero2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Please try this patch instead. It works well with my alps touchpad. (I
> > don't have a synaptics touchpad.) It does the following:
> >
> > * Compensates for the lack of floating point arithmetic by keeping
> >   track of remainders from the integer divisions.
> > * Removes the xres/yres scaling so that you get the same speed in the
> >   X and Y directions even if your screen is not square.
> > * Sets scale factors so that the speed for synaptics and alps should
> >   be equal to each other and equal to the synaptics speed from 2.6.10.
>
> Thanks a lot, Peter. I think I like the result even better than the one
> after the simple-minded removal that I posted. It's possible that when
> I accepted the case of (pktcount == 1) it hurt smoothness.
>
> Do you think it makes sense to zero fractions when pktcount is dropped?

In practice I don't think it will make any significant difference. What
the code should do depends on what you want to happen if you move the
mouse pointer 1/2 pixel with one finger stroke, then move it another 1/2
pixel with a second stroke. The patch I posted will move the pointer one
pixel in this case and your code will move it 0 pixels. (The X driver does
not reset the fractions, but that doesn't of course mean that it's the
only right thing to do.)

> Also, I think the extra unary minus is uncoth.

The code was written like that to emphasize the fact that X and Y use the
same formula, with the only difference that the kernel Y axis is mirrored
compared to the touchpad Y axis.

It didn't make any difference for the generated assembly code though,
using gcc 3.4.2 from Fedora Core 3.

> +	enum {  FRACTION_DENOM = 100 };

The enum is much nicer than my #define.

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Peter Osterlund - petero2@xxxxxxxxx
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