Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

[Jaco Kroon <jaco@kroon.co.za>]

Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Apr 5, 2005 1:20 PM, Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> wrote:
>>Jaco Kroon wrote:
>>>Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>>>>You should be able to control that in xorg.conf.
>>>
>>>My thoughts exactly.  The same goes for gpm.
>>
>>No. AFAIK multifinger taps are handled by the touchpad firmware, but not
>>on ALPS touchpads, only on synaptics.
> 
> Yes, you are right... I meant one could remap actions to corner and
> multi-finger taps in xorg.conf but if hardware does not recognize
> multi-finger taps then you are out of luck.
> 

Argh... This is going to take some getting used to.  Why would ALPS not
have multi-finger detection?  That was such a cool feature.  gpm seems
to be having problems getting the tapping thing right though but I
should most probably just rtfm a bit more :).

btw Dmitri, that patch does not seem to work.  But the kernel panic that
kicks in when X starts up does imply that _something_ changed.  No sync
however, so no stack trace in the logs either.  In fact, looking at the
dmesg part of those two boot attempts the serio i8042 driver doesn't
even manage to find the KBD or AUX ports (No keyboard or mouse).

I can do more trouble shooting at a later point.  For now I'll just use
"i8042.nomux=1 usb-handoff" to boot with.  Thanks for the effort.

Jaco
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