Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:59:30 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Do not use synaptics extensions by default |
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..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), and touchpad senses your finger even when it is not touching, doing spurious movements => you can't hit anything on screen. Without synaptics extensions everything works just fine. You can reenable synaptics support using commandline.
Plus it documents psmouse_noext option.
Please apply, Pavel
--- tmp/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2004-01-10 18:51:13.000000000 +0100 +++ linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2004-01-10 16:15:31.000000000 +0100 @@ -799,8 +799,10 @@ before loading. See Documentation/ramdisk.txt. + psmouse_noext= [HW,MOUSE,deprecated] Equivalent to psmouse_proto=bare + psmouse_proto= [HW,MOUSE] Highest PS2 mouse protocol extension to - probe for (bare|imps|exps). + probe for (bare|imps|exps|synaptics). psmouse_resetafter= [HW,MOUSE] Try to reset Synaptics Touchpad after so many --- tmp/linux/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c 2004-01-09 20:24:19.000000000 +0100 +++ linux/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c 2004-01-10 16:16:06.000000000 +0100 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(psmouse_noext, "[DEPRECATED] Disable any protocol extensions. Useful for KVM switches."); static char *psmouse_proto; -static unsigned int psmouse_max_proto = -1U; +static unsigned int psmouse_max_proto = PSMOUSE_IMEX; module_param(psmouse_proto, charp, 0); MODULE_PARM_DESC(psmouse_proto, "Highest protocol extension to probe (bare, imps, exps). Useful for KVM switches."); @@ -678,6 +678,8 @@ psmouse_max_proto = PSMOUSE_IMPS; else if (!strcmp(psmouse_proto, "exps")) psmouse_max_proto = PSMOUSE_IMEX; + else if (!strcmp(psmouse_proto, "synaptics")) + psmouse_max_proto = PSMOUSE_SYNAPTICS; else printk(KERN_ERR "psmouse: unknown protocol type '%s'\n", psmouse_proto); } -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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