Re: 2.6 must-fix, v4

[Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>]

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.