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title="NEEDINFO - exclusion zones don't exist? Palms move cursor from sides"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97347#c8">Comment # 8</a>
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title="NEEDINFO - exclusion zones don't exist? Palms move cursor from sides"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97347">bug 97347</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:peter.hutterer@who-t.net" title="Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>"> <span class="fn">Peter Hutterer</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Paul Johnson from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=97347#c7">comment #7</a>)
<span class="quote">> I'm not used to feeling so out of my depth.
>
> I put the file in /etc/udev/hwdb.d:
>
> pauljohn:hwdb.d$ cat dell-5510.hwdb
> # Dell Precision 5510
> evdev:name:SynPS/2 Synaptics
> TouchPad:dmi:bvn*:bvr*:bd*:svnDellInc.:pnPrecision5510*</span >
in case this wasn't bugzilla adding the linebreak: make sure this is one line
only
<span class="quote">> pauljohn:hwdb.d$ sudo udevadm hwdb --reload
> hwdb: unrecognized option '--reload'</span >
whoops. documentation is wrong, it's --update. Sorry about that, I'll push the
fix out in a second
<span class="quote">> Meanwhile, Mr Google suggests that rebooting will do the hwdb automatically,</span >
no, it doesn't rebuild the hwdb on reboot, it merely applies the tags in the
existing compiled hwdb
<span class="quote">> pauljohn:~$ sudo touchpad-edge-detector /dev/input/event7
> Touchpad SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on /dev/input/event7
> Move one finger around the touchpad to detect the actual edges
> Kernel says: x [1278..5664], y [1206..4646]
> Touchpad sends: x [1278..5665], y [1209..4650] |^C</span >
ok, that's close enought hat we don't have to fix anything here, thanks.</pre>
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