Mouse pointer doesn't move with two fingers pressed on bcm5974 touchpad

[Eric Williams]

## Issue

- mouse pointer doesn't move with two fingers pressed (although right-click is registered)

- cannot right-click 'n' drag with two-finger mouse button 2 emulation

- can't access context menus with right-click drag because mouse pointer doesn't move

## Environment

- bcm5974-based touchpad

- Unity, Window Maker, and Xfce are all affected

## Further information

Attached is the syslog after enabling debugging in the bcm5974 driver, and two-finger pressing and moving the two fingers around on the trackpad. Notice that the driver registered movement (Y: and X: values change with n:2, or two fingers down), but the pointer was not moving on the screen.

Steps used:

sudo echo -n 9 > /sys/module/bcm5974/parameters/debug
sudo logger begin two-finger test
[move fingers around with two-fingers pressed]
sudo logger end two-finger test

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
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NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Nov 23 16:48:01 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: oneiric
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SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
UdevDb: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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[Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3)]

I'm not sure what "right click and drag" is, but could someone take a look and see if this needs action?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

We don't configure two-finger scrolling by default, at least to my knowledge. Chase, is that something we should get through multi-touch?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

@Chase: just assigned to you for a comment/investigation, feel free to unassign of course.

[Eric Williams (eric-canonical)]

Trying to be clearer:

Two-finger scrolling works fine, because it's not a button press, just a matter of lightly laying two fingers on the trackpad and moving them up and down.

We're talking about a two-finger *click* here. When the trackpad is clicked with two fingers, the pointer stops moving as long as the button is down.

Eric

[Chase Douglas (chasedouglas)]

This is an issue with our current stack. It falls under the general heading of: X.org clickpad support is non-existent. We hope to address clickpad issues this cycle, but we don't have a good answer right now. The most useful work around is to enable tap-to-click. Although the user has to use a different mechanism to achieve the same results, everything is still possible.

[benwin (abvwmc)]

I have the same problem with Lenovo Z400.

[Thiago Martins (martinx)]

Impossible to use WindowMaker with Ubuntu 14.10 with my laptop, can not "right-click" on "Clip Main", can not use "right-click menus"...

This is very annoying, it depends on a mouse... I don't remember the last time I used a mouse with a laptop...