Bug 85627

Summary:	Add support for ForcePads
Product:	Wayland	Reporter:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Component:	libinput	Assignee:	Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	low	CC:	jwrdegoede, peter.hutterer
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Peter Hutterer 2014-10-30 02:50:02 UTC

ForcePad is the most recent touchpad from Synaptics Inc. It's a multi-touch capable touchpad without any physical buttons, i.e. without even the clickpad button.

Synaptics: http://www.synaptics.com/en/forcepad.php
Kernel patches: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/8/478

The device still sends BTN_LEFT when a pressure threshold is met and INPUT_PROP_BUTTONPAD is set. It should thus work fine as clickpad.
If the device is marked by the kernel as ForcePad, we can ignore the clicks and provide click emulation from within libinput. That would provide more flexible implementations, including direct software button emulations based on the finger positions.

Device is present on the HP EliteBook 1040 laptops, note that those laptops do not have software button markings.
http://www8.hp.com/au/en/ads/elite-products/elitebook-1040.html

Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2014-11-10 00:18:14 UTC

Known pnpids: SYN300D, SYN3014
Known HID pids: HID\VID_06CB&PID_3021, HID\VID_06CB&PID_7603

Comment 2 Peter Hutterer 2016-05-06 05:24:48 UTC

Closing for now. We'll re-open this when we have something to actually *do* with the information.

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