Re: PROBLEM: Missing events on thinkpad trackpoint buttons

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On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 5:14 AM, Benjamin Tissoires
<benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [re-sending because my gmail client decided to turn on HTML for all
> mails I wrote. Sorry for the duplicate ]
>
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Benjamin Tissoires
> <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 04:08:40PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>>> > Hi Gabor,
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 01:05:46AM +0200, Gabor Balla wrote:
>>> > > Hi Dmitry,
>>> > >
>>> > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Dmitry Torokhov
>>> > > <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
>>> > > > <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > > >> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 12:24:59AM +0200, Gabor Balla wrote:
>>> > > >>> Hi Dmitry,
>>> > > >>>
>>> > > >>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:35 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
>>> > > >>> <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > > >>> > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:50:27PM +0200, Gabor Balla wrote:
>>> > > [...]
>>> > > > Ah, wait, not quite still. So we actually do want to disable
>>> > > > gestures
>>> > > > when in Absolute mode (non extended). Although frankly I do not
>>> > > > think
>>> > > > we'll ever see pre 4.0 Synaptics device in a wild.
>>> > >
>>> > > Also notice there is a function called synaptics_set_disable_gesture
>>> > > that can
>>> > > change that bit regardless of current mode.
>>> >
>>> > That attribute is only created when touchpad is used in relative mode,
>>> > so should be OK.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks.
>>>
>>> How about this one?
>>
>
>  Hello Dmitry,
>
>  unfortunately, I have been reported a breakage in libinput this week
>  following this patch.
>  See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92091
>
>  If you look at the evemu recording with 2 fingers scroll, you will see that
>  the kernel sends a slot and a tracking ID for the second finger, but it
>  never sends the actual coordinates. Libinput ignores such slot (I'll check
>  with Peter what we do in such cases when he will be back from his vacations)
>  and this kills the 2 fingers scrolling.
>
>  I believe the fix is worse than the original situation given that this also
>  removes all gestures support we can have in libinput.
>

Umm, I guess I have to claim temporary insanity or something like that
with this one: we do need extended W mode to handle multiple touches
in the driver and  the patch disabled it ;(

Before we revert this, Nick, Gabor, can you tell me what capability
bits your touchpads report (in dmesg)?

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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