Comment 111 for bug 681904

The patch from comment #64 is unlikely to ever make it upstream or into Ubuntu. It changes too much in a single patch, it needs a lot of cleanup, and the upstream driver has moved on to the official multi-touch protocol.

I've used that patch as a reference for understanding the newer Elantech touchpad protocol and developed a patch that only adds support for this protocol. This is testing well for me on a Samsung NF310, but I'm not sure whether or not it will support the touchpads on all the models listed here. I've made builds for natty and oneiric in order to get testing on more hardware so we can find out.

Note that unless you are using oneiric you will still see the wobbly cursor issue. In oneiric this is fixed by filtering in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics. I have no plans to add any filtering to the driver.

The test builds are available at:

  http://people.canonical.com/~sforshee/lp681904/

After testing, please report back which hardware you tested on and whether or not it worked. If it doesn't work please attach the output of dmesg when running the test build. Thanks!