Re: 2.5 input drivers Synaptics touchpad

From: Ralf Gerbig (rge-news@dialeasy.de)
Date: Wed Oct 02 2002 - 15:22:56 EST


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).

Thanks,

Ralf

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