Re: 2.5 input drivers Synaptics touchpad

[Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:22:56PM +0200, Ralf Gerbig wrote:
> Hi Vojtech,
> 
> Am Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2002 20:44 schrieb Vojtech Pavlik:
> > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 06:24:54PM +0200, Ralf Gerbig wrote:
> > > Hi Vojtech,
> > >
> > > I just tried 2.5.40 and could not get the Synaptics touchpad on an Acer
> > > Travelmate 353 to work with either the synaptics driver for XFree
> > > at http://www.mobilix.org/software/synaptics/ or tpconfig at
> > > http://www.compass.com/synaptics/ gpm also does not like the synps2
> > > protocol. Works as (im)ps/2 though.
> 
> > Yes, for 2.5 I still have to write a synaptics touchpad kernel driver
> > for it to work properly.
> 
> is there any kind of 'raw' psaux interface to those userspace drivers?
> looks to me as a, at least stopgap, solution. With the disclamer that
> I know nothing about the interface or the kernel, but i've read the
> mantra 'userspace' many times (for values of userspace as in X and gpm).

No, there isn't, but it should not be too hard to implement. Maybe
easier than a synaptics driver, but not really much easier.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs