a/kensington

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:20:38 -0700
From: Michael Santos <michael@alpha.ece.ucsb.edu>
To: mklinux-setup@public.lists.apple.com,
Subject: ANNC: New Kensington / Apple TrackPad kernel

Hello all.

I have just released a new kernel based on current sources (as of
4/26/99) and my work on the kensington branch of the mouse code.  The
new kernel has configurable (instead of locked on) support for the
Kensington TurboMouse/Orbit devices and adds support for the tapping
functionality of the trackpad in newer PowerBooks.  It also features a
way of remapping the buttons reported to the vmlinux server, which is
primarily useful to those with 4 button mice.  Finally, you can specify
exactly how you want your mouse to be configured.

Please see the page:

http://alpha.ece.ucsb.edu/~michael/mklinux/kensington.html

to download the kernel and for instructions on how to use it.  In a nutshell,
you need to add a mach_options line to your lilo.conf file if you don't have
one.

For TurboMouse support, add to the mach_options line

mouse_probe=1 kensington=1

For Trackpad support, add this:

mouse_probe=1 trackpad=1

Finally to remap buttons 1, 2, 3, and 4 to 5, 6, 7, and 8 (don't actually
do this, it's just an example so you can see the order), you would add:

button_map=5678

Only buttons 1-4 are currently supported.  A zero in the appropriate field
will disable the button completely.  Note that previous Kensington kernels
had a built-in assumed map of button_map=1322.

Finally, note that, because this kernel is based on a current CVS snapshot,
the resulting kernel may be considerably less stable than Generic #7.  It
works for me, but your mileage may vary.

Please send feedback to me at michael@alpha.ece.ucsb.edu.  I'd be interested
to hear from you whether or not it works.  Trackpad support has only been
tested on a PowerBook G3, but should work on other PowerBooks newer than the
5300 as well.

-- Mike


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Michael Santos                        
Graduate Student Researcher      Email: michael@alpha.ece.ucsb.edu   
ECE Department                   URL  : http://alpha.ece.ucsb.edu/~michael
University of California         Tel  : (805) 893-7788
Santa Barbara, CA  93106         Fax  : (805) 893-3262
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