Multiple clicks with touchscreen

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:31:20PM -0500, Kerrick Staley wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Peter Hutterer
> <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> > judging from that, the problem isn't in your config, it seems to be your
> > kernel driver. evtest should show you if you get two events per click
> > instead of one.
> 
> I tried running evtest and then tapping the touchscreen both before
> running xinput (when the problem does not occur) and after running
> xinput (after which the problem does occur). The outputs were nearly
> identical; only the timestamps and the screen positions changed. In both
> cases, there are two "Key" events: one on tap and one on release. Here
> is some evtest output taken after running xinput (the issue was
> occurring when this output was taken):

oh, crud. Now I realise what's going on. Pretty sure you experience
http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/5024/

Jeremy, can you pick this up for 1.10 please? we ship it in Fedora, upstream
fixed it differently (but not as easy to backport). I just forgot to
nominate it for you.

Cheers,
  Peter