Thread (7 messages) flat view 7 messages, 3 authors, 2011-09-13

Re: elantech touchpad issues

From: JJ Ding <hidden>
Date: 2011-09-07 01:44:31

Hi Richard,

I will try to find a touchpad that matches your model and see what I can
do.

jj

On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:53:25 +0200, Richard Schütz [off-list ref] wrote:
Hello everybody!

I'm owning a Samsung N145P netbook, that comes along with an elantech 
touchpad:

[    5.949921] elantech: assuming hardware version 2, firmware version 
4.2.22
[    5.985481] elantech: Synaptics capabilities query result 0x09, 0x14, 
0x0b.

It has some annoying issues, which hopefully can be resolved now as 
there is some ongoing development on the driver again. I have already 
tested the current "[PATCH v5 0/8] Input: elantech: add support for 
newer hardware" patchset, but without success.


The device's axis ranges, which are reported to userspace, seem to be 
totally wrong.

(kernel 3.0.4)
[    17.940] (--) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: x-axis range 8 - 1144
[    17.940] (--) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: y-axis range 8 - 760

(kernel 3.0.4 + patchset)
[    16.936] (--) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: x-axis range 0 - 1152
[    16.936] (--) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: y-axis range 0 - 576

I get the following ranges, when I use synclient in monitor mode to look 
which values really are passed to the synaptics driver in X:

(kernel 3.0.4)
x: 0-819
y: 355-760

(kernel 3.0.4 + patchset)
x: 0-819
y: 171-576

Because of this differences the edge/scrolling areas of the touchpad are 
calculated wrong and can't be used by default.


The other issue occurs very often when two fingers are used:

(kernel 3.0.4)
     time     x    y   z f  w  l r u d m     multi  gl gm gr gdx gdy
    7.982  1020 -268 127 2  7  0 0 0 0 0  00000000

(kernel 3.0.4 + patchset)
     time     x    y   z f  w  l r u d m     multi  gl gm gr gdx gdy
    3.118  1020 -444 127 2  7  0 0 0 0 0  00000000

When the fingers are released this strange values are reported. This 
makes two finger scrolling unusable, because it jumps back to the 
beginning everytime.

-- 
Regards,
Richard Schütz
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