[KARMIC] [SRU] Add Sentelic Finger Senseing Pad Touchpad support
Jerone Young
jerone.young at canonical.com
Wed Oct 28 20:00:07 UTC 2009
SRU Justification:
Impact: On laptops with the Sentelic Finger Senseing Pad are not fully
functional the main problems are:
* The trackpad is very sensitive and there is no way to turn off
tap to click so it is easy to moving ones typing point when
entering text.
* There is no scrolling by movement down the right side as on the
Synaptics Track pad because Synaptics have patented that
feature, the taping of sensitive areas is however a good
substitute.
Laptops such as the MSI Wind are effected. A driver was accepted
upstream that addresses these issues though didn't make into 2.6.31, but
in 2.6.32 tree.
LP# 311869
Related links:
http://www.pcurtis.com/wind.htm#sentelic
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=917721
Fix:
The upstream commit is here:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fc69f4a6af49ee69475dc4217924d9edf77760e0
Also need to have turned on in kernel configuration file.
Testcase:
Sentelic Touchpads will work properly with scrolling support as well as
other features.
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