Re: Synaptics touchpad
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 02:38:57PM +0200, Hans Engelen wrote:
Just wondering (haven't downloaded FC2T2 yet due to ISP download
constraints,
blech), is the synaptics touchpad extended functionality (doubletap,
multifinger etc) restored in FC2T2 ? It was entered into bugzilla for FC2T1
and was a big nuisance for me too so.
These changes came from the input driver rewrite in 2.6, needing the new
XFree86 driver for evdev handling to get the raw synaptics events.
Incase it was not, I fixed it on my FC2T1 setup with the 2.6.4 kernel
update
from RHN and by installing the synaptics driver for XFree that lives at this
address : http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/
Yes packages have been made for this, along with quite lengthy discussion which
involved getting needed headers into XFree86 (and in xorg-x11) SDK, also the
latest sources for the driver detect these and use them.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=synaptics
I plan to resync,build and push package shortly, there are quite a few people
who are intrested in having it.
I am not sure when or where
the doubletap functionality was lost and if this is by design or not, but in
a way I am glad since this driver allows me to finetune many of the extended
capabilities of the touchpad to my personal liking (acceleration, doubletap
timelimits etc etc).
Touchpad has been working for a while with the extra driver - certainly I've
been using it since last summer. As mentioned above the change was within the
input rewrite.
Vojtech's input tree can be found here:
bk://kernel.bkbits.net/vojtech/input
Paul