Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6 must-fix, v4 | From | Felipe Alfaro Solana <> | Date | 17 May 2003 21:29:00 +0200 |
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On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 14:34, Stuffed Crust wrote: > 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 > > > > > > 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. > > More important than 'tpconfig' is that the native synaptics drivers for > both gpm and XFree86 won't work under 2.5+ either. > > Jens Taprogee has also been working on a Synaptics Input driver. The > main difference in what I have is that his passes the absolute events up > to the mousdev layer, which in turn does the heavy lifting. Much better > IMO, as mousedev can get new features which will apply to all > absolute-mode touchpads and other input devices.
What about ALPS GlidePoint touchpads? My NEC laptop has one and I miss a lot the ability to simulate the wheel by dragging the finger over the edges of the touchpad.
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