From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:37:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:37:54 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([195.39.74.230]:59063 "EHLO twilight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:37:52 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 22:40:30 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Ralf Gerbig Cc: Vojtech Pavlik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5 input drivers Synaptics touchpad Message-ID: <20021002224030.A21833@ucw.cz> References: <200210021824.54927@hsp-law.de> <20021002204428.A20378@ucw.cz> <200210022222.57408@hsp-law.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200210022222.57408@hsp-law.de>; from rge-news@dialeasy.de on Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:22:56PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs