On Thu, 20 May 2010, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > Dmitry Torokhov (17): > Input: elantech - enforce common prefix on messages > Input: elantech - relax signature checks These two commits (I _think_ - I didn't actually bisect it) seem to result in a Dell Inspiron bootup message changing from: input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5 to elantech: assuming hardware version 2, firmware version 4.3.1 elantech: Synaptics capabilities query result 0x08, 0x18, 0x0c. input: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5 and the end result is a total disaster. In the words of my daughter, whose laptop this is: Subject: Computer=awful I am not able to click by tapping, I actually have to press down.. It's really frustrating and I want it fixed. and having tested it, I have to agree. It's beyond awful. It's absolutely disgusting, and the touchpad went from "quite usable" (with tapping, double-tapping, scroll-wheel on the right side etc) to "totally unusable". The buttons you have to press (since tapping doesn't work) are on the touch-pad itself, and it's basically a total pain. The scroll-wheel emulation still seems to work, but tapping has gone away. I'm reading the docs, and they say that you can do magic things with the raw registers, but if I'm looking at the register contents they seem to say that tapping _is_ enabled. It just doesn't work. So it would seem that the "non-native" PS/2 emulation of that thing is way better than the native driver, and we should _not_ try to treat it as a touchpad. We're better off leaving it in ImPS/2 mode. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
