Comment 110 for bug 549447

I encountered this bug when I upgraded to Fedora 11. Can you comment on which kernel is supposed to have addressed this?

I have kernel-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64. In /var/log/Xorg.0.log I see:

(II) config/hal: Adding input device eGalax INC. USB TouchController
(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 1.1.0
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event7"
(**) Option "TapButton1" "1"
(**) Option "TapButton2" "3"
(**) Option "TapButton3" "2"
(--) eGalax INC. USB TouchController: no supported touchpad found
(EE) eGalax INC. USB TouchController Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "eGalax INC. USB TouchController"
(II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"

Can you also comment on how you got the egalax driver working?

After installing the module, I have this in my xorg.conf file:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "EETI"
        Driver "egalax"
        Option "Device" "usbauto"
        Option "Parameters" "/var/lib/eeti.param"
        Option "ScreenNo" "0"
EndSection

And in the Xorg log file:

(II) LoadModule: "egalax"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input//egalax_drv.so
(II) Module egalax: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.6.0, module version = 2.6.0
        Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
        ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 4.0
...
(**) Option "SendCoreEvents"
(**) egalax: always reports core events
(**) egalax X device name: egalax
(II) HID Touch Controller @ /dev/hidraw0
(**) egalaxHistroSize=10
(**) Option "ScreenNo" "0"
(**) egalax associated screen: 0
(**) egalaxParameter=/var/lib/eeti.param
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "egalax" (type: egalax)

But when I press the touchscreen the mouse moves erratically. Subsequent mouse input (for example from a touchpad) causes spurious clicks and the left button stops working. I noticed that something is adding a mouse device handler to the touchscreen:

cat /proc/bus/input/devices
...
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0eef Product=0001 Version=0210
N: Name="eGalax INC. USB TouchController"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:0b.1-2.3/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.1/usb1/1-2/1-2.3/1-2.3:1.0/input/input7
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse2 event7
B: EV=1b
B: KEY=401 30000 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=f
B: MSC=10
...

How can I disable this?