Re: 2.6.13-rc1-mm1 -- Synaptics touchpad not detected correctly

[Peter Osterlund]

Miles Lane <miles.lane@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> Any ideas why my Synaptics touchpad isn't getting recognized
> as supporting multi-finger tap detection?  I haven't seen detection
> work with earlier kernels, either.  However, multifinger taps work
> under WinXP.
> 
> dmesg is reporting:
> 
>            Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.10, id: 0x258eb1, caps:
> 0xa04713/0x0
>            input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1

It looks like it is recognized. Bit 1 in the caps word tells if the
touchpad supports multi-finger detection. Earlier kernels used to
report this in plain text form, but it was considered bloating dmesg
unnecessarily, so now you only get the raw capability bits reported.

Anyway, you also need to use the X driver from

        http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html

to take advantage of multi-finger taps. The kernel itself doesn't bind
any special actions to them.

-- 
Peter Osterlund - petero2@xxxxxxxxx
http://web.telia.com/~u89404340
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