On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 18:48 Brett Lymn <bl...@internode.on.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 11:04:46AM +0000, nia wrote: > > > > "Newer" thinkpads (x250, 2015...) have single-button clickpads with extra > > wired buttons. Until a few revisions ago these buttons couldn't be > configured > > to act as regular mouse buttons and defaulted to acting as buttons 4 and > 5. > > It’s certainly my curses/terminfo experience coming into play, but is there a case for making a mousecap/mouseinfo facility to take this, or is that not a proper characterization of the problem? -bch > > That is good... > > > I haven't managed to get right clicks with the clickpad to work either, > > honestly. I was not sure how this was supposed to work until you > explained > > it. To clarify, clicking the pad down with a single finger in the right > > area of the pad rarely results in a right click menu either. I worked > > around this by adding a knob to recognize the extra buttons as regular > > mouse buttons by default. > > > > OK, IIRC whether or not you get the click pad button emulation depends > on how the device reports itself - they are only there for one-button > click pads. > > My main concern here is that you have converted all multi-touch into a > scroll event. > > What W values were you getting when testing the two finger scroll? Do > you have a copy of the "Synaptics PS/2 TouchPad Interfacting Guide, PN: > 511-000275-01 Rev. B"? I haven't located a later document but this one > does describe the various modes and what W means in those modes because, > unfortunately, it is overloaded depending on the mode the device is in. > I can send you a pdf of the document off list if you don't already have > a copy. > > > I've got another laptop with a single button clickpad, and no buttons, > > but that's using the ims(4) driver which is significantly less useful. > > > > Is it an actual synaptics touchpad on the end of I2C? I vaguely recall > that there is an ability to connect via I2C but I may be > mis-remembering. > > > > > The number of sysctl parameters with fairly magical values makes > configuring > > this driver to a usable state a quite confusing affair. But yeah, the > > values are not fine-grained enough for me for that particular knob. > > Yes, it is unfortunate that there are a lot of magical parameters there. > Hopefully most of them have sensible defaults, some are configured based > on reports from the trackpad itself but are exposed because sometimes > the trackpads lie. > > Given what you are saying I am wondering if your trackpad was actually > in extended-W mode or not. The W value, like a lot of the registers in > the trackpad, is overloaded and the numbers can mean different things > depending on what mode the trackpad is in and, even worse, the trackpad > won't tell you what mode it is in so you can't just test this. > > -- > Brett Lymn > -- > Sent from my NetBSD device. > > "We are were wolves", > "You mean werewolves?", > "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", > "Oh" >
