[RFC] Multitouch proposal v2 + implementation

Chase Douglas chase.douglas at canonical.com
Wed Sep 22 20:00:02 PDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 14:45 +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> I'd appreciate any comments or review, especially from toolkit people.
> I've been testing with a uinput-based 'touchscreen' which provides 3
> independent abs contact points, as well as a Magic Mouse.  Note if
> you're using a Magic Mouse that the kernel driver is buggy: it's
> supposed to send SYN_REPORT -> SYN_MT_REPORT -> SYN_REPORT stream to
> indicate that there are no more touchpoints left, but doesn't do so, so
> you get ghost touchpoints hanging around.

This should be fixed in 2.6.36:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=e3612e8669b8c15278058f8dd52e3dc6e7d26710

Thanks,

-- Chase



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