synaptics was Re: Touchpad don't recognize "double tap"

[Paul Nasrat]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 01:07:13PM +0100, Rui Gouveia wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an ASUS A1000 laptop.
> http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=A1000%20Series&langs=01
> 
> Everything worked just fine with FC1. After a fresh installation with
> FC2t2, the first thing that caught my attention was the missing "double
> tap" in the touchpad.

This is due to changes in the way the kernel handles the input layer.  This is
mentioned here: http://codemonkey.org.uk/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt

An aditional driver is required for XFree86 to process the raw event devices
from the synaptics.  This has been discussed quite a lot previously - the
current state of affairs are:

1) source rpm for driver http://pauln.truemesh.com/rpms/synaptics-0.12.5-0.fdr.1.src.rpm
2) system-config-mouse needs to recognise synaptics and configure XF86Config/xorg.config appropriately

If the synaptics driver does not go into core I will push to fedora.us, it may be worth noting that certain functionality with touchpads will not be available in the RELEASE-NOTES.

Paul