Ok, so I've managed to write a kernel driver, as an extension to psmouse, which recognises the touchpad and puts it into gesture-enabled mode. Currently it recognises and uses vertical and horizontal two finger scrolling, and also knows about the other gestures (but I haven't got around to figuring out how they work with the input framework yet).
Check it out here: $ git clone -b byd https://www.github.com/chrisdiamand/linux.git The protocol is pretty simple - there's some ps2 init stuff, then a sequence of magic bytes which I intercepted from the windows driver. It returns 4 byte packets using the intellimouse protocol, except the last bit (scroll/Z) takes different values depending on the gesture. Some issues remain though: - It's not supported in xf86-input-synaptics yet. This means you can't control parameters with synclient. I think things like intertial scrolling are handled here too. - Gesture recognition seems to be being done by the touchpad itself (firmware?) and not by the driver in the windows driver. Unfortunately it doesn't do a very good job of it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1424293 Title: BYD trackpad detected as PS/2 mouse To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-utopic/+bug/1424293/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
