TouchPad MultiTouch ??

Has someone try to use the touchpad in a multitouch mode ?

I think these kinds of features would be useful on such small screen

I found this on ibm.com. Do you think it could work on AAO ?
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/libra ... index.html

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TeeWee

 

The answer to that is complicated. The hardware supports multi touch (its being used on windows installs already, and i tried it myself on xp running on the 8gb aao). The problem is the driver for linux doesn't recognize that the hardware supports multi touch, even though the driver supports multi touch and the hardware does too.

I wrote to the driver developer, but have yet to receive a response.

 

This is exactly what I was coming in to say, down to attempting to contact the driver developer.

The touchpad is indeed multitouch, and the perl scripts will work flawlessly, but the driver only reads a single finger - support for the model needs to be added. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about driver hacking, but I would guess it doesn't require anything beside telling it to recognize this model as multitouch. It might be something we can get with the EEE group about.

More than likely though, we're going to have to wait for Acer to put the drivers out.

 

Has there been any luck with this yet?

 

Nope. I've been testing all the latest upcomingdistributions with bleeding edge stuff, like Intrepid and Mandriva 2009 - nada...