[ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-synaptics 0.99.1

[Colin Guthrie]

Peter Hutterer wrote:
> yes and no. Depending on whether your touchpad can detect multi-finger
> gestures, the driver enables either edge scrolling or two-finger scrolling.
> On your touchpad two-finger scrolling should be enabled.

Oh neat. I have two fingered scrolling ;)

> Now there's two other factors that may influence the behaviour as well:
> some touchpads report ranges beyond what they can report (e.g. 1500 if the max
> you can actually reach is 1200). In this case the edge settings are out and
> you need to manually adjust them to get edge scrolling working again.
> 
> the other problem is a bug in the synaptics kernel driver. Currently, all
> touchpads announce multi-finger capabilities, even if they don't have them.
> see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/19/376 for a patch.
> So if twofinger scrolling doesn't work for you, then you're (like me) affected
> by the kernel bug and need to manually override it in your xorg.conf/fdi. Or
> just patch the kernel and provide testing feedback :)

Cool, thanks for the info.

Col

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