[PATCH xf86-input-synaptics resend] Revert "Default to 2-finger emulation when HW supports it"

Chris Bagwell chris at cnpbagwell.com
Fri Apr 1 13:32:01 PDT 2011


On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Chase Douglas
<chase.douglas at canonical.com> wrote:
> This changes the default behavior for trackpads that have only pressure
> information to emulate two finger actions. It's been reported that the
> default value is too low and/or that the pressure values may fluctuate
> with environmental factors (temperature, humidity, etc.). When the
> value is wrong, spurious right clicks and scroll events are triggered.
>
> Fixes: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/742213
>
> This reverts commit ffa6dc2809734a6aaa690e9133d6761480603a68.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas at canonical.com>
> ---

Here is a bug report with some extra information on how it could be
improved greatly but probably not totally fixed.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32538

A good chunk of users will no longer need to use 2-finger emulation
once they upgrade to 2.6.38 kernels with semi-mt support on synaptics.
 In fact, this code gets disabled with semi-mt devices.  So my
original reason for trying to get it working out of the box for everye
on is not really there.

So I'm OK with reverting it.

Chris


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