BCM5974 touchpad issues...

[Timo Aaltonen]

On 12.02.2013 09:32, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> On 12 February 2013 12:47, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
>> please don't send out 4 emails for the same issue.
>
> My apologies; posting, subscribing and resubscribing to the right
> mailing list with you CCd was racing with quick moderator approval.
>
>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 03:10:41PM +0800, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
>>> I'm seeing erratic click events on Broadcom 5974 touchpads (Macbook
>>> Pro 10,1) during two-finger scrolling.
>>>
>>> I was wondering what mailing list is the most relevant, and where to
>>> start to see if this is a userspace or kernel HID issue, anyone?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>    Daniel
>>>
>>> $ synclient
>>> Parameter settings:
>>>      LeftEdge                = -3898
>>
>> this doesn't look right. did you set this somehow, or is this the default
>> it comes up with?
>
> This is the default, perhaps because the BCM5974 advertises a clickpad property.
>
>>>      RightEdge               = 4428
>>>      TopEdge                 = 434
>>>      BottomEdge              = 6146
>>>      FingerLow               = 70
>>>      FingerHigh              = 75
>>>      FingerPress             = 257
>>>      MaxTapTime              = 180
>>>      MaxTapMove              = 535
>>>      MaxDoubleTapTime        = 180
>>>      SingleTapTimeout        = 180
>>>      ClickTime               = 100
>>>      FastTaps                = 0
>>>      EmulateMidButtonTime    = 0
>>>      EmulateTwoFingerMinZ    = 283
>>>      EmulateTwoFingerMinW    = 7
>>>      VertScrollDelta         = -243
>>>      HorizScrollDelta        = -243
>>
>> did you configure this as negative? if not, there's a bug there somewhere.
>
> Yes, to achieve the (IMHO) more natural scroll direction.
>
>> either way, hard to tell without any information as to what server version
>> or synaptics driver version you're running.
>
> xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.6.2
> xserver-xorg 7.7

sounds like you're on debian/ubuntu, the latter doesn't say much, 
'apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-core' would.

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