Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:38:25 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: ALPS touchpad no longer recognizing 'taps' as mouseclick in 3.3-rc3 |
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On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 09:12:43PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 06:22:21PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:12:36PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 08:47:28AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > This problem has been since 3.3-rc1, but I only now am getting around to > > > > reporting it, sorry about that. > > > > > > > > In 3.3-rc3, my alps touchpad isn't recognizing a tap on the touchpad as > > > > a mouse click. Is there a new Kconfig option that I need to enable? > > > > > > > > My /proc/bus/input/devices entry for this thing is: > > > > I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=7326 > > > > N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" > > > > P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0 > > > > S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6 > > > > U: Uniq= > > > > H: Handlers=mouse1 event6 > > > > B: PROP=8 > > > > B: EV=b > > > > B: KEY=e420 70000 0 0 0 0 > > > > B: ABS=260800001000003 > > > > > > > > Is there anything else you need me to report to help track this down? > > > > > > > > > > Please make sure you have xorg-x11-drv-synaptics installed and then > > > check if tap to click is enabled in your DE. I think Gnome for some > > > reason has it off my default. > > > > Is this a new thing for the 3.3 kernel? I ask as 3.2 and older kernels > > work just fine this way. I can do a 'git bisect' to track it down to a > > specific patch if that will help out. > > No, there is no need. I am pretty sure pre-3.3 your touchpad worked in > PS/2 compatibility mode; in 3.3 we merged support for native multitouch > protocol so your touchpad works in absolute mode, can support various > gestures (vertical/hrizontal scroll, user-selected sensitivity, etc.) > and is recognozed as a proper touchpad by the entire stack. For some > reason though Gnome has disabled tap to click for touchpads by default. > I do not remember what is the default for KDE. > > Hope this helps.
Yes, that solved it, thanks. The Gnome setting is in the Mouse/Trackpad option in gnome-control-center.
I have a feeling you are going to get a lot of emails about this issue when 3.3 is released, good luck :)
greg k-h
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