Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 12 Jun 2003 08:31:00 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Synaptics TouchPad driver for 2.5.70 |
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:23:48PM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@ucw.cz> writes: > > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 08:16:13PM +0200, Peter Osterlund wrote: > > > > > The w value is somewhat special and not really a real axis. According > > > to the Synaptics TouchPad Interfacing Guide > > > (http://www.synaptics.com/decaf/utilities/ACF126.pdf), W is defined as > > > follows: > > > > > > Value Needed capability Interpretation > > > W = 0 capMultiFinger Two fingers on the pad. > > > W = 1 capMultiFinger Three or more fingers on the pad. > > > W = 2 capPen Pen (instead of finger) on the pad. > > > W = 3 Reserved. > > > W = 4-7 capPalmDetect Finger of normal width. > > > W = 8-14 capPalmDetect Very wide finger or palm. > > > W = 15 capPalmDetect Maximum reportable width; extremely > > > wide contact. > > > > > > Is there a better way than using ABS_MISC to pass the W information to > > > user space? > > > > We should probably add an EV_MSC, MSC_GESTURE event type for this. > > That'll be the cleanest solution. > > Here is a new patch that sends ABS_ events to user space. I haven't > modified the XFree86 driver to handle this format yet, but I used > /dev/input/event* to verify that the driver generates correct data.
I like this one. I'm merging it now. Thanks!
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