From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw•cz>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, debian-powerpc@lists•debian.org,
Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff@comcast•net>
Subject: Re: PowerBook5,8 - TrackPad update
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:19:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051224231928.GC2183@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1135463271.5611.3.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Ne 25-12-05 09:27:51, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 21:17 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > Ok, I finally received my new laptop (PowerBook5,8 15"). I tried the
> > > latest patch you posted, and while the kernel driver seem to work ok
> > > (though you can feel the lack of a proper acceleration curve), the
> > > synaptics driver in X doesn't work in any useable way. I updated the one
> > > that comes with breezy to whatever was the latest on the author web site
> > > (.44 I think) and while it detected the tracpkad, the result was soooooo
> > > slooooow that it was totally unseable. I've tried the config tool that
> > > comes with KDE for it but couldn't "boost" it to anything useful. Is
> > > that expected or is there still issues to be resolved in the driver ?
> > > I'm tempted to add some minimum support for a proper acceleration curve
> > > in the kernel driver in fact...
> >
> > I do not think you should add it inside *kernel*. Proper acceleration
> > support really belongs to X...
>
> X, fbdev apps, gpm ... acceleration curves are typically done in HW,
> thus it makes sense in this case to have it in the kernel driver
> (besides, it should be fairly simple anyway) when it's in normal
> mode.
It should be doable once in gpm, all other apps can use gpm's repeater
mode...
> When it's in raw mode for use by the synaptics X driver, if course, it's
> expected that those things are to be done by that driver.
...but you are right, doing it in /dev/input/mice emulation layer
makes some sense. OTOH I thought we were moving away from
/dev/input/mice... Its Dmitry's call I guess.
Pavel
--
Thanks, Sharp!
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2005-11-21 23:57 ` PowerBook5,8 - TrackPad update Parag Warudkar
2005-11-22 0:08 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-11-22 12:51 ` Johannes Berg
2005-11-29 0:06 ` Michael Hanselmann
2005-11-29 6:11 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-11-29 7:50 ` Michael Hanselmann
2005-11-29 10:38 ` Johannes Berg
2005-11-29 16:11 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-11-30 11:17 ` Johannes Berg
2005-11-30 22:39 ` Michael Hanselmann
2005-11-30 23:46 ` Michael Hanselmann
2005-12-02 14:28 ` Stelian Pop
2005-12-04 22:42 ` Michael Hanselmann
2005-12-06 3:38 ` Andy Botting
2005-12-06 21:12 ` Michael Hanselmann
2005-12-09 23:33 ` Michael Hanselmann
2005-12-23 23:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-12-24 11:52 ` René Nussbaumer
2005-12-24 20:17 ` Pavel Machek
2005-12-24 22:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-12-24 23:19 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-12-25 0:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-12-25 0:52 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-12-02 17:02 Parag Warudkar
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