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

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Sun Apr 3 16:42:53 PDT 2011


On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 03:32:01PM -0500, Chris Bagwell wrote:
> 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.

applied, thanks.

Cheers,
  Peter


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