[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#562052: Correctly identify touchpads

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 08:59:47PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> [commit 52e039f3b0a5749f706b97491087b9632d30512f in hal git tree,
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/hal/commit/?id=52e039f3b0a5749f706b97491087b9632d30512f]
> 
> That commit in hal (released as 0.5.14) - apparently -
> causes some breakage.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562052
> is one example (with my comments, Cc'd).
> 
> Basically, in some cases synaptics touchpad is not
> recognized as touchpad by hal and hence wrong driver
> gets loaded.
> 
> My example:
> 
> I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=12b1
> N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
> B: EV=b
> B: KEY=6420 7000f 0 0 0 0
> B: ABS=11000003
> 
> (it's an Acer Aspire 9300 notebook, the touchpad has
> 3 buttons, middle of which is like the main "ok"
> button on a typical cell phone -- one can press it
> to center and to any of 4 other directions).
> 
> With this hunk:
> 
> @@ -1184,9 +1182,4 @@ input_test_abs (HalDevice *d, const char
>                         }
>                 }
> -
> -               if (test_bit (ABS_PRESSURE, bitmask_abs)) {
> -                       hal_device_add_capability (d, "input.touchpad");
> -                       goto out;
> -               }
>         }
>  out:
> 
> (ie, without the ABS_PRESSURE test) the device is not recognized
> as a touchpad.  Adding this test back restores things to normal.
> The other change in that patch, BTN_TOUCH => BTN_TOOL_FINGER,
> has no effect.
> 
> The kernel is 2.6.32 currently.
> 
> What's wrong? ;)
>

Not sure, seems to be working here... Keying on ABS_PRESSURE is
definitely not correct as some touchpads to not report it and many
touchscreens do. Is this on 32 or 64 bit kernels? What about userspace?

-- 
Dmitry