Messages in this thread | | | From | "Joseph Fannin" <> | Date | Sat, 17 May 2003 01:16:21 -0400 | Subject | Re: 2.6 must-fix, v4 |
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On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 04:17:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> - synaptic touchpad support > > Apparently there's a userspace `tpconfig'
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.
Solomon Peachy is working on such a driver -- he posted a preliminary patch to lkml about 3 weeks ago (I've CC'ed him, I hope he doesn't mind). He told me that he's completed a decent amount of work on an absolute mode driver that would set the stage for support for all the touchpad's features.
The patch Solomon posted is finally enough for me to use 2.5 on my laptop, but it doesn't restore all the functionality available via tpconfig (and friends), so that's a regression that could probably be called a 'must-fix'. If he could make an absolute mode driver work it would have more features than tpconfig, and also not break the input layer's abstraction of pointing devices, IMHO.
Without any patch, 2.5 is a frustratingly unusable experience for me, and though I might have been the first vocal laptop user, I'm sure I won't be the last.
-- Joseph Fannin jhf@rivenstone.net
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