Re: çå: çå: çå: [PATCH] input: alps-fix the issue the special alps trackpoint do not work.

From: Hui Wang
Date: Fri May 24 2019 - 03:41:14 EST



On 2019/5/24 äå3:26, Pali RohÃr wrote:
On Friday 24 May 2019 13:50:53 Hui Wang wrote:
On 2019/5/24 äå1:36, Peter Hutterer wrote:
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 01:25:52PM +0800, Hui Wang wrote:
On 2019/5/23 äå2:01, Peter Hutterer wrote:
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 09:40:30AM +0200, Pali RohÃr wrote:
On Wednesday 22 May 2019 07:30:43 Xiaoxiao Liu wrote:
Hi Pali,

Ok, and cannot you set ALPS_DUALPOINT flag based on that
alps_check_is_trackpoint() result and then update
alps_process_packet_ss4_v3() code to supports also
V8 trackpoint packets?
--> Yes, we can do like so, when we use the v8 method to process the trackpoint , the mouse speed is not ideal.
Then we choose the standard mouse driver.
Mouse speed is something which is configurable. Have you configured it
somehow? Also there is libinput project should handle these settings
more properly.

Adding Peter Hutterer, maintainer of libinput to loop. I think he could
help with this problem.
libinput has a quirk for a magic multiplier on trackpoints. it was the only
solution I found that came close to "working" given that every device seems
to provide some other random magic data. Doc for it is here:
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/trackpoint-configuration.html
Hello Peter Hutterer,

To adjust the trackpoint speed from userspace:

If the libinput version is lower than 1.9.0, we could set
POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL=0.25

If the libinput version is higher than 1.12.0, we could set
AttrTrackpointMultiplier=0.25

But if we use libinput-1.10.0, how could we adjust the speed?
The LIBINPUT_ATTR_TRACKPOINT_RANGE property, which didn't end up working
well (hence why it got replaced again). See the docs here though:
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/1.10.0/trackpoints.html

Cheers,
Peter
OK, got it, Thanks.
Is not here some database where for input device name / id is specified
that property? So users do not have to invent what is correct value for
their hardware?

Since the libinput version in the ubuntu 18.04 is 1.10, I tried to set LIBINPUT_ATTR_TRACKPOINT_RANGE with different values (from 25, 20, 10, 5) in the udev hwdb database, I checked it with "udevadm info /dev/input/eventX" to confirm the value is set to LIBINPUT_ATTR_TRACKPOINT_RANGE successfully, but looks like the cursor speed doesn't change at all. So for ubuntu 18.04, looks like we have to adjust the speed in the kernel driver.

Thanks,

Hui.