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SubjectRe: 2.6 must-fix, v4
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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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