Opened 12 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#3229 closed defect (fixed)

adapt HGPK pentablet selection for upstream interface

Reported by: dsd Owned by:
Priority: Unspecified by Maintainer Milestone:
Component: Sugar Version: Unspecified
Severity: Unspecified Keywords: 12.1.0
Cc: Distribution/OS: Unspecified
Bug Status: Unconfirmed

Description

Sugar's HGPK mouse frame device for switching between simple and pentablet mode uses a kernel interface that was modified in the upstreaming process.

The sysfs attribute is now named "hgpk_mode" and accepts 3 textual values: Mouse, GlideSensor and PenTablet.

Mouse is the simple mode that is used by default.

GlideSensor is an enhanced protocol for the regular touchpad mode that additionally reports pressure and uses absolute coordinates. We suspect that it may be more reliable than mouse mode in some environments. (previously not selectable by sugar, could maybe be added somehow now? is also fine to exclude from the UI selection)

PenTablet mode puts the touchpad into resistive mode, you must then use a stylus as an input. We suspect this is the most reliable way to drive the touchpad.

I would suggest removing support for the old non-upstream interface, but it would probably not be difficult to have support for both if others disagree.

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by dsd

  • Keywords 12.1.0 added

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by dsd

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

Pushed as d12a40da7c3a

comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by dnarvaez

  • Milestone 0.96 deleted

Milestone 0.96 deleted

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