[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#321845: Alps touchpad tapping remap fails in gpm

[Peter Samuelson]

[David Liontooth]
> In brief, gpm's "-g 2" switch in for remapping tapping to the middle
> key isn't working for my Alps touchpad, which makes it hard to
> interoperate with an external three-button mouse.
> 
> The Alps Glidepoint (on a vpr matrix 200a5) is correctly detected
> when the psmouse module is loaded:

The problem is very simple: gpm does not support the Linux kernel input
event device.  In practical terms, this means that with kernel 2.6 and
anything plugged into the PS/2 port, gpm won't see any features beyond
that of a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer - up to 5 buttons and a wheel.

We'll try to support the event device soon - moving to new upstream,
and if that doesn't properly support it, I'll write a patch.  The evdev
API isn't all that difficult, but I don't want to write a patch for our
current (rather old) gpm version.

Thanks for the report,
Peter
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