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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2017-04-04 17:32:22 -0700 |
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committer | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2017-04-05 15:44:07 -0700 |
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Input: appletouch - convert documentation into ReST format
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Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/input/appletouch.txt b/Documentation/input/appletouch.txt index b13de3f89108..c94470e66533 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/appletouch.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/appletouch.txt @@ -1,12 +1,17 @@ +.. include:: <isonum.txt> + +---------------------------------- Apple Touchpad Driver (appletouch) ---------------------------------- - Copyright (C) 2005 Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> + +:Copyright: |copy| 2005 Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> appletouch is a Linux kernel driver for the USB touchpad found on post February 2005 and October 2005 Apple Aluminium Powerbooks. -This driver is derived from Johannes Berg's appletrackpad driver[1], but it has -been improved in some areas: +This driver is derived from Johannes Berg's appletrackpad driver [#f1]_, +but it has been improved in some areas: + * appletouch is a full kernel driver, no userspace program is necessary * appletouch can be interfaced with the synaptics X11 driver, in order to have touchpad acceleration, scrolling, etc. @@ -16,8 +21,8 @@ Frank Arnold for further improvements, and Alex Harper for some additional information about the inner workings of the touchpad sensors. Michael Hanselmann added support for the October 2005 models. -Usage: ------- +Usage +----- In order to use the touchpad in the basic mode, compile the driver and load the module. A new input device will be detected and you will be able to read @@ -27,13 +32,13 @@ In X11, you can configure the touchpad to use the synaptics X11 driver, which will give additional functionalities, like acceleration, scrolling, 2 finger tap for middle button mouse emulation, 3 finger tap for right button mouse emulation, etc. In order to do this, make sure you're using a recent version of -the synaptics driver (tested with 0.14.2, available from [2]), and configure a -new input device in your X11 configuration file (take a look below for an -example). For additional configuration, see the synaptics driver documentation. +the synaptics driver (tested with 0.14.2, available from [#f2]_), and configure +a new input device in your X11 configuration file (take a look below for an +example). For additional configuration, see the synaptics driver documentation:: Section "InputDevice" - Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" - Driver "synaptics" + Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" + Driver "synaptics" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" @@ -60,8 +65,8 @@ example). For additional configuration, see the synaptics driver documentation. ... EndSection -Fuzz problems: --------------- +Fuzz problems +------------- The touchpad sensors are very sensitive to heat, and will generate a lot of noise when the temperature changes. This is especially true when you power-on @@ -73,13 +78,17 @@ the driver. You can activate debugging using the 'debug' module parameter. A value of 0 deactivates any debugging, 1 activates tracing of invalid samples, 2 activates -full tracing (each sample is being traced): +full tracing (each sample is being traced):: + modprobe appletouch debug=1 - or + +or:: + echo "1" > /sys/module/appletouch/parameters/debug -Links: ------- -[1]: http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/PowerBook/touchpad/ -[2]: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html +.. Links: + +.. [#f1] http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/PowerBook/touchpad/ + +.. [#f2] `<http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html>`_ |