Question about synaptics driver

[Paul Vojta]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:46:52AM +0200, Florian Echtler wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I hope this is not too far off-topic, but I didn't find anywhere else
> to ask. I'm using the synaptics driver 0.14.6. I've read the Synaptics
> Touchpad Interfacing Guide from the driver homepage, but I couldn't find
> an answer to my question. 
> 
> My touchpad (Thinkpad T60) does have multifinger detection, and I can
> use, e.g., "synclient -m 100" to verify this. However, when I place
> a second finger on the pad, the f value goes up by one, while the
> coordinate stays the same. In fact, I always get the back the
> coordinates from the last finger. However, for the application I'm
> having in mind, I would need the coordinates from the midpoint between
> the two fingers (older touchpads showed this behaviour, I think). Can I
> perhaps simply disable the multifinger detection, or is there some
> other way to achieve this?

Not that I know of.  It seems that your touchpad is just "trying to be
smart", so that it avoids having the mouse jump when the second finger
touches down.

--Paul Vojta, vojta at math.berkeley.edu