Re: 8.0 BETA: touchpad taps occur while typing

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 08:11:06PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:05:20AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > It's probably a newer synaptics hardware, which may need a different code.
> > It needs to be looked at.
> > BTW the code is in src/sys/dev/pckbport/, look at pms* and synaptics*
> 
> I tried hacking the condition below to force-detect synaptics, but then I
> found keyboard wasn't working on booting with this kernel.
> 
> /* Probe for synaptics touchpad. */
> if (pms_synaptics_probe_init(sc) == 0) { // made this if(1)
>     sc->protocol = PMS_SYNAPTICS;
>     } else

not surprising. you should look what is happening in pms_synaptics_probe_init()
instead.

> 
> May be instead of hacking around "detection" I could try and mask the taps
> in the default mouse driver. Which module shall I look for for this?

pms.c. But I think the hardware is generating click events for this,
so you proably can't mask then in software without a proper synaptics
driver.

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