Name of touchpad changed in latest rev

Malcolm Matalka mmatalka at gmail.com
Tue Jan 19 12:59:57 UTC 2021



Greg V <greg at unrelenting.technology> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 08:01, Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I just installed the below revision, and looks like the name the mouse
>> shows up as has changed.  Not sure if this is intended or not.  What was
>> "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" and now it is "DELL07E6:00 06CB:76AF
>> TouchPad".
>
> Congratulations, you are now using the touchpad over I2C instead of PS/2 :)
> The iichid code has finally landed in current so we have much better HID support
> now.

Oh wow!  Great!  That opens up a bunch of laptop options too as I've had
other laptops where I couldn't use the trackpad because it was i2c.
Glad to see it's landed!  Thank you all involved!


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