On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 02:59:05PM -0500, Adrien Guillon wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I recently purchased a touchpad to alleviate some wrist strain, and I'm > attempting to get it working with my Linux box and Xorg. > > xinput --list shows: > > -- Cirque Corporation 9925 AG Touchpad id=11 [slave pointer (2)] > > lsusb shows: Bus 008 Device 004: ID 0488:0282 Cirque Corp. > > It is working right now as a basic mouse... > > I strongly suspect some hacking is required to get this working, so I've > posted to this list as a first step. Is support required in the Linux > kernel for this device and Xorg will just work once that is detected? What > can I do to help get this supported (I'm comfortable hacking on source > files if needed)? I'm not sure where to start, so any advice is > appreciated.
check the evemu-describe or evtest output, if it looks like a touchpad (ABS_X/Y, BTN_TOOL_FINGER, etc.) then the synaptics driver should work with it and enable the usual features. if it doesn't, then you'll need kernel drivers first. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
