[gpm]Synaptic giant patch

[Ben Pfaff]

Peter Berg Larsen <pebl@math.ku.dk> writes:

> On 12 Aug 2002, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> > > There is now a lot better support for
> > > touchpads with guests which solves (I believe) Ben Pfaff problem.
> 
> I guess not then :)
> 
> You still need to apply the patch to correct parsing tabs.

Oh.  Okay, I've done that.  (It seems that it should be part of
the "Synaptic giant patch"?)

> >     *** err [synaptics.c(2663)]: PS/2 device doesn't appear to have synaptics sticks identification
> >     *** err [synaptics.c(2663)]: PS/2 device doesn't appear to have synaptics sticks identification
[...]
> 
> Are you really getting two of each? but you can ignore these as they are
> not used yet. 

Yes, I'm really getting each of them twice.

> > Afterward, the stick works, but not the touchpad, and none of the buttons.
> 
> Setting stick_pressure_enabled to 1 should make the buttons work. (The
> option name is old, and got it from the fact that pressing on the stick
> generats same responce as your buttons).

Okay, now the middle button works fine (to paste), the right
button works like the left button should (click and drag to
select region or multi-click to select word or line), and the
left button is wacky (sometimes I push it and it pastes,
sometimes it acts like I did a multi-click, occasionally it works
like it should).  Those are the buttons for the stick.

As for the buttons for the touchpad, they don't do anything at
all. 

> When you say that the touchpad does not work, do you mean not
> at all or you cannot not tap?

Well, before adding the tab patch and turning on
stick_pressure_enabled, it did nothing at all, not the touchpad
itself or its buttons.  Now the touchpad works fine, I can even
double-tap-and-drag, but the touchpad buttons still don't do
anything.

I guess I need to do some sleuthing in the code.
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