2005-07-06T16:34:18Z 2005-07-06T16:34:18Z 2005-07-06T16:34:18Z http://neil.brown.name/blog/20050706163418 <p>Over the past few months (too many!) I've playing with a user-space driver for the touchpad on my Dell Lattitude D800 note-book - an ALPS touchpad. <p>The 2.6 Linux kernel does contain a driver for the ALPS touchpad, but I am unconvinced that the kernel is the right place for such a driver, and it doesn't let me do interesting things and experiment easily. <p>Anyway, I now have a user-space ALPS driver that does what I want. I supports corner-taps which give me access to all 3 X11 button, and side-stroking to get a scroll wheel. It also allows me to continue dragging something after my finger hits the edge of the pad. <p>The sourcecode is at <a href="http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/D800/ALPSmouse.c">http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/D800/ALPSmouse.c</a>. It should compile quite easily. You just run it (as root) and tell X11: <p> <pre> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" </pre> <p><p><a href=http://neil.brown.name/blog/20050706163418>read more...(No comments)</a>