Comment 7 for bug 1415358

Hi Nara and Pierre,

In this case it's not a checkbox bug per se; the resource is reporting the capabilities as it sees them, and that's what the system is also reporting here.

We could try to work around this by also looking at the names of devices connected, and force running of the multitouch tests if a synaptics device is detected, as I don't think synaptics is producing non-multitouch devices anymore, but this would be making an assumption and I'm not too happy with that.

I wonder if maybe by loading some module (or removing a module, like the i2c_hid example I mentioned, this module needs to be blacklisted) we could get the touchpad recognized as multitouch. To verify this, load or remove modules, then restart the X server, and run:

xinput list --long |grep XITouch

it should show at least one device with XITouchClass