Re: [Mactel-linux-devel] new appletouch alpha version

[Soeren S. <mac...@nn...>]

On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 11:20 +0200, Sven Anders wrote:
> Stefan Schweizer schrieb:
> > Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> >>> Also I noticed that palm detection does work badly here and does
> >>> seriously degrade the touchpads quality. So I disable that and debug.
> >>> Also after suspend sometimes appletouch behaves strangely.
> >> what do you mean be 'behaves strangely' ?
> > 
> > it did not move or moved back when I moved my finger. But it could also be
> > connected with the palm detection not working porperly and thus many finger
> > movements being ignored.
> 
> Does it occure, if you start your movement in the middle of the touchpad or
> only on the left or right?
> 
> > But I sure hve the problem that after syspend the synaptics scroll function
> > does not work. After chvt 1 and chvt 7 it works again. Do you know any
> > other way to reinitialize that?
> 
> I think, this is a problem of the Synaptics driver, because I does not have
> hotplug capabilites. I think the next Xorg version will solve this problem...

As I don't have this problem, it is eitherfixed in
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 0.14.7~git20070517-2 or by the static
device name I use in xorg.conf:

 Option          "Device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-Apple_Computer_Apple_Internal_Keyboard_._Trackpad-mouse"

Soeren