On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 05:38:30PM +1100, [email protected] wrote: > I need absolute rather than relative position from my touchpad. At > Peter Hutterrer's suggestion I installed the following in > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-evdev-touchpad.conf > Section "InputClass" > Identifier "evdev touchpad" > MatchIsTouchpad "on" > Driver "evdev" > Option "Mode" "absolute" > EndSection > > which works nicely on my DELL D430. > On my DELL E4310, however, the touchpad isn't recognized > (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/637911) > and I have the same problem as described there, i.e no touchpad > visible in /proc/bus/input/devices. > The touchpad works in relative mode, having been initialized, I > suspect, as a generic mouse. > My question is whether I can force the use of the evdev driver to > allow the use of absolute axes or whether there is a low-level problem > that prevents this.
kernel bug. the kernel needs to send the right magic command to the touchpad so it actually looks like a touchpad. otherwise it looks like a generic PS2 mouse to us and everything else is hidden by the hardware. this is a common problem for newer touchpads and usually consists of finding the right magic sequence. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
