libinput and AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad

[Sérgio Basto]

On Sex, 2016-10-28 at 09:48 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 05:12:25PM +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, 
> > After read synaptics will be deprecated, I tried change my touchpad
> > to
> > libinput but vertical scroll doesn't work [1]. The story of detect
> > this ALPS is back from 2009 [2], have we any place more specific to
> > track download libinput problems ?. I'm using Fedora 23, xorg-x11-
> > drv-
> > libinput-0.16.0 and xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.8.3. 
> file a bug against libinput please and assign it to me, we'll take it
> from
> there.
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=wayland&component=
> libinput
> 
> > 
> > Another question how I disable libinput and enable synaptics, in
> > xorg.conf, because I just can have synaptics working when I remove
> > libinput package , which for tests is very annoying . 
> the driver selection is done via xorg.conf.d snippets. what I
> recommend for
> testing is copy this into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-force-
> synaptics.conf.disabled
> 
> Section "InputClass"
>         Identifier "Force synaptics"
>         MatchIsTouchpad "on"
>         Driver "synaptics"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> then symlink the file 
>     ln /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-force-synaptics.conf.disabled \
>        /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-force-synaptics.conf
> 
> every time you want to use synaptics, add the symlink. every time you
> want
> to use libinput, delete the symlink. That's what I'm doing here and
> it works
> just fine.
> 
> Cheers,
>    Peter

OK , thanks for the explanation, first I will upgrade my laptop and
test with xorg-x11-drv-libinput-0.19.0 .  It can take some days until
report the bug .

Cheers,

> 
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > 
> > [1]
> > https://blog.laimbock.com/2014/11/23/howto-fix-a-too-sensitive-touc
> > hpad-on-linux/
> > https://blog.laimbock.com/2014/11/23/howto-fix-a-too-sensitive-touc
> > hpad-on-linux/#comment-75509
> > 
> > [2]
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14660
> > 
-- 
Sérgio M. B.