Synaptics touchpad

[Paul Nasrat]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 02:38:57PM +0200, Hans Engelen wrote:
> Just wondering (haven't downloaded FC2T2 yet due to ISP download constraints, 
> blech), is the synaptics touchpad extended functionality (doubletap, 
> multifinger etc) restored in FC2T2 ? It was entered into bugzilla for FC2T1 
> and was a big nuisance for me too so.

These changes came from the input driver rewrite in 2.6, needing the new
XFree86 driver for evdev handling to get the raw synaptics events.

> Incase it was not, I fixed it on my FC2T1 setup with the 2.6.4 kernel update 
> from RHN and by installing the synaptics driver for XFree that lives at this 
> address : http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/

Yes packages have been made for this, along with quite lengthy discussion which
involved getting needed headers into XFree86 (and in xorg-x11) SDK, also the
latest sources for the driver detect these and use them.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=synaptics

I plan to resync,build and push package shortly, there are quite a few people
who are intrested in having it.

> I am not sure when or where 
> the doubletap functionality was lost and if this is by design or not, but in 
> a way I am glad since this driver allows me to finetune many of the extended 
> capabilities of the touchpad to my personal liking (acceleration, doubletap 
> timelimits etc etc).

Touchpad has been working for a while with the extra driver - certainly I've
been using it since last summer.  As mentioned above the change was within the
input rewrite.

Vojtech's input tree can be found here:

bk://kernel.bkbits.net/vojtech/input

Paul