Refined ALPS TouchPad driver

[Piranha]

Release 6 beta 2:

- Added V7 valid packet check.

- Added V7 Trackstick support (initial).

- Update V5 to adhere with Linux. 

- Reordered declarations in header.

- Reordered main functions in driver.

- Lots of miscellaneous cleanups, improvements.

 

Everyone should test this release regardless of the HW version. Almost everything has changed.

But PLEASE write your HW version when reporting.

Driver report: V7 touchpad with ID: E7=0x73 0x03 0x0a, 

EC=0x88 0xb3 0x18 : EL Cap 10.11.6

 

Huge improvement on secondary click : edit spoke too soon/still having some issues when using navigation.  Seems like an improvement in sensitivity / accidental launch. Better than before. Maybe increasing the time between 1st and second taps ?

 

Slight improvement on Left/Right click edge: Area has increased from fingernail on corner edge, to finger tip-pad at corner edge

 

Selected Highlight still buggy, text spaces and end of paragraphs drop highlight. Drag and drop has dropping issues as well. However I’ve notice with drag and drop  if I increase the speed in which I move selected items, the drag lock seems to hold. Just tested same with text selection as well, the increased rate of speed seems to overcome text spaces and hold the highlight.

 

Still no Right click menu 

 

Caps lock not working 

 

Everything else great!

 

Thanks ..

[okieiam]

rightclick = 2 fingers tap

[Dr. Hurt]

Release 6 Beta 3:

- Filters for V7 and V8 tarckstick (like V3).

- Update trackstick detection on V3. Hope it doesn't break trackstick again.

- Disable link time optimization (LTO) (Jake Lo's reboots?)

​- Update bundle version to 6.0

- More cleaning, reordering, and fixing.

 

Just found out that V8 code was given to Linux by "ALPS Japan" themselves

 

That makes it the *only* version that it is not based on reverse-engineering!!! 

Release 6 Beta 3.zip

[okieiam]

R6 b3: bug with Alps V8 -> number keypad not work

[guimenez]

My alt key is been replaced by Windows key, it's normal?

Is there anything I can make to bypass this?

Thanks

[minhhien1996]

work fine on my dell e5450 V7. track stick recognized but can not use, it move the cursor to the right bottom corner every time i try to use it

[okieiam]

.r6 b3, Alps V7, wrong key   `~      --->    +$

                           keyboard setting ---> missing 'change keyboard type'

[Jake Lo]

My alt key is been replaced by Windows key, it's normal?

Is there anything I can make to bypass this?

Thanks

 

.r6 b3, Alps V7, wrong key   `~      --->    +$

                           keyboard setting ---> missing 'change keyboard type'

 

Go to VoodooPS2Controller.kext/Contents/PlugIns/VoodooPS2Keyboard.kext/Contents

Open info.plist with Xcode or plistedit pro.

change this 

<key>Swap command and option</key>
<false/>
<key>Use ISO layout keyboard</key>
<true/>

to this

<key>Swap command and option</key>
<true/>
<key>Use ISO layout keyboard</key>
<false/>

Save and reboot.

[okieiam]

Found a solution

Overwrite r6 b3 VoodooTouchpad.kext to Rehabman's one, work well both keyboard and trackpad

[Piranha]

Release 6 Beta 3:

- Filters for V7 and V8 tarckstick (like V3).

- Update trackstick detection on V3. Hope it doesn't break trackstick again.

- Disable link time optimization (LTO) (Jake Lo's reboots?)

​- Update bundle version to 6.0

- More cleaning, reordering, and fixing.

 

Just found out that V8 code was given to Linux by "ALPS Japan" themselves

 

That makes it the *only* version that it is not based on reverse-engineering!!! 

 

 

Driver report: V7 touchpad with ID: E7=0x73 0x03 0x0a, 

EC=0x88 0xb3 0x18 : EL Cap 10.11.6

 

Secondary click : Fixed .. It's perfect !!!!!!  Thanks!

 

 Left/Right click button area on touchpad:  Still corner edge, finger tip-pad. Works, still very small area. It takes a bit to find the area when working.

 

Highlighting text: 

Okay, I think I can bring to light some of what's happening with text selection: If you're trying to select an area of text. You initiate by holding down your "left click button", then with your "right finger" start selecting an area of text. When reaching a point where you need to re-adjust on the touchpad to grab more area, you lift your "right finger" up to reposition it drops all the previous selected text, even though you still have your "left click" still engaged the whole time. 

 

Right click menu, I guess not a real issue... I started using the 2 finger tap to open menu.. 

 

Caps Lock not working

 

Thanks again for doing this!