Re: PATCH - ALPS glidepoint/dualpoint driver for 2.5.7x

[Neil Brown]

On Sunday June 29, [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> Hi! Thank you for the patch. It looks interesting, but unfortunately it
> doesn't work very well for me. I have an Acer Aspire laptop with a
> four-button Alps touchpad (left,right and two up/down scroll buttons). The
> "down" button functions as the middle mouse button, but I've never been
> able to get the "up" button properly recognized under linux.
> 
> If I apply your patch to 2.5.73, none of the buttons work (except for
> tapping for left-click), neither in X nor with gpm, but touchpad movement
> works fine, with increased sensitivity compared to the standard driver.
> Unpatched 2.5.73 works as expected.

Hmmm... the joys of no documentation....

Can you
  grab  http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/D800/mouseplay.c
  compile it
  boot into a 2.4 kernel
  Disable gpm and get out of X
  run mouseplay capturing the output 
    e.g. mouseplay | tee /tmp/m.out
  perform various mouse action, particularly the buttons
  annotate /tmp/m.out to tell me what you did when,
  send m.out to me.

Thanks,
NeilBrown