Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 08:34:47 -0400
From: Stuffed Crust <pizza@shaftnet.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Joseph Fannin <jhf@rivenstone.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6 must-fix, v4
Message-ID: <20030517123447.GA31064@shaftnet.org>
References: <20030516161717.1e629364.akpm@digeo.com> <20030516161753.08470617.akpm@digeo.com> <20030517051621.GA10348@rivenstone.net>
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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
                                                           ICQ #1318444
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur                 Melbourne, FL

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