Bug#560743: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: Add support for enable/disable touchpad button

[Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 06:40:51PM -0300, Javier Di Mauro wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
> Version: 1.2.0-2
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> My notebook (HP Pavilion dv2) has this button for disabling and enabling its touchpad.
> It currently does nothing when pressed.
> Altrhough when pressed it's recognized by te system as "xf86TouchpadToggle".
> It would be great if this button could do its job.
> 
> In my case, this button has a backlight, which is intended to indicate the status of
> the touchpad (light on when touchpad on). Currently it's always turned on.

I'm not sure this is a job for the driver at all. Sounds to me that
xf86TouchpadToggle is generated by the keyboard (as a special button or
even from some acpi platform driver as an hotkey) and the synaptics
driver doesn't get notified at all about it.

It should be probably hal or gnome/kde installing specific actions for
this button.
Thoughts? I'll reassign it as appropriate.

-- 
mattia
:wq!