[gpm]Touchpads

[Peter Berg Larsen]

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Charlie Shub wrote:

> let me weigh in on this.  about 2 years ago, i had need to turn off
> the TAP ON PAD ===>>>>> clicking a button
> The fix was to take the touchpad into absolute mode and that way we
> had access to the tap bits in the mouse packets.  

Why didnt you just turn off the gesture/tap mode bit in mode byte 1.  
tpconfig can do this for you.


> Problem was that when power went away (like for hibernation) the
> system would come back with the pad in relative mode and tyap enabled
> again.

Yes, this seems consistent with STIG page 77.


> The fix for this was to use a hook in the APM daemon to restart the
> modified GPM

Hmm, I am relative new to gpm. Which modification are you talking about
? (the initialization? how was it done before)?


Peter
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