-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:46:27AM -0400, Benjamin Tissoires wrote: > On Mar 19 2015 or thereabouts, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > So I have two questions/remarks about this: > > > > - if I don't use the touchpad, do I need xf86-input-synaptics at all? > > Wether you use it or not, with the current kernel patch set, there will > be no modifications to do in xf86-input-synaptics. Legacy versions will > work just fine and the trackstick/touchpads are seen like they were in > the past (lik ein the thinkpads t410 .. t430). > > So I would advice to just revert to whatever Xorg / xf86-input-synaptics > / configuration you had from your distribution, apply the patches (or > wait for 4.0-rc5), and you are done. So to summarize: both patchsets are enough for complete touchpad+trackpoint operations, having both is not useful but not harmful either, and it's better to have the kernel one. Am I right? Thanks for the information, I'll also try to point our kernel maintainers to that thread and ask them if it's possible to backport them to the 3.16 kernel for Jessie. > > > - how can I have the BIOS setting respected by the psmouse/synaptics > > kernel module (like when using psmouse) > > I was confused at first so I double checked. If you use the > psmouse.proto=imps boot parameter, then the bios setting is respected. > > If the trackpad is enabled, it is barely usable, but that's what you get > :) Oh ok. I didn't try to boot with touchpad enabled in BIOS and psmouse.proto=imps, so I missed that. But that doesn't really answer my question. Can the BIOS setting be handled correctly, so I don't have to disable the touchpad from xinput or something? Regards, - -- Yves-Alexis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJVCupjAAoJEG3bU/KmdcClcikH/2e5qahRr2+gXRbEzQcimMvp 9EHk7cY+1AQlDfN5EasKY3mEbYUC7ZZP97IlKZSTCgcl8Ai8d+jYAMlkOviytV5x eh8LixhI/0d4u/SBDycXYXezMaNqdVQYBJ+E8bEHM6SXp4h1qEHlhzeIwDDafWQk UeVFWbQAxrWSXX+6ZCrmBNqDOvKdCddAa77DjZGhOztBrnk4+Kr2CvcurNiHJ/36 Z1gdSaVk9Or8hfwxcoT5ZMGXld+CihK0MMuwSLBoHjggHjGFkDZuQM6I3l8WAQO5 uMjQhp+s3Gt2raMYwSFDSQQ2Tlc7//nh6LySIkPVUU+uaG3W2xbhOUFHnauLW1I= =xG6T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
