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On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 01:16:21AM -0400, Joseph Fannin wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 04:17:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > - synaptic touchpad support
> >=20
> > Apparently there's a userspace `tpconfig'
>=20
> For 2.4, yes, but the new input layer doesn't allow the raw
> access to the device needed for tpconfig to frob the touchpads'
> configuration -- this is the reason for Bugzilla #18. Vojitech
> Pavlik said writing support for raw access from userspace wouldn't be
> much less work than writing the kernel support.
More important than 'tpconfig' is that the native synaptics drivers for=20
both gpm and XFree86 won't work under 2.5+ either.
Jens Taprogee has also been working on a Synaptics Input driver. The=20
main difference in what I have is that his passes the absolute events up=20
to the mousdev layer, which in turn does the heavy lifting. Much better=20
IMO, as mousedev can get new features which will apply to all=20
absolute-mode touchpads and other input devices.
- Pizza
--=20
Solomon Peachy pizza@f*cktheusers.org
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