Below is the response I got from the synaptics driver developer. He believes it's a kernel issue and it should be reported there. I will try to push this in that direction
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:14 AM Subject: [Bug 36302] touchpad losing sync: 2 instances of synaptics module loaded and wrongly detected as multitouch To: [email protected] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36302 Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |NOTOURBUG --- Comment #1 from Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> 2011-04-17 21:14:03 PDT --- kernel issue. From the drivers POV, the touchpad disappears and a different device comes back. That device doesn't look like a touchpad though and hence the driver doesn't activate on it. If you look at the second half of the log, you'll see that evdev finds x/y relative and a few buttons. Touchpads, if not initialized by the kernel, usually look like PS/2 mice. Tapping and other features are implemented in hardware/firmware and look like a button click once the event reaches user space. Please report this to the kernel, it needs to re-initialize the touchpad. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You reported the bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
