On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:30:26AM +0000, Kalman KHIRALY wrote: > I buyed today a toshiba l300-19j laptop, with synaptics touchpad. > I wanted to use multiple finger feature like on macosx. > > It looks like everything is ok: > 1. the kernel recognizes: > [ 231.424535] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as > /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input8 > > 2. X.org recognizes: > (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" > (type: TOUCHPAD) > > 3. synclient claims two finger support: > synclient -l |grep VertTwoFingerScroll > VertTwoFingerScroll = 1
This just means it's enabled, nothing more. > However, when I run synclient -m 100, the "f" column has only 0 or 1, no > matter > with how many finger I touch the touchpad. > > I have googled the whole day, I browsed the source, even read some > marketing stuff from synaptics website, > still no success. [...] > So my question is, how can I make sure, if it is a HARDWARE > LIMITATION, or some software lack/bug/anything? > Is there a reliable method to check if my hardware supports multiple > finger touch or not? There's some devices that announce multi-finger capabilities even if they don't actualy do multi-finger. This is a kernel bug, fixed in 2.6.29. Chances are you have one of them. http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/19/376 Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
