Messages in this thread | | | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: request for opinion on synaptics, adb and powerpc | Date | Fri, 6 Jan 2006 23:17:03 -0500 |
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On Friday 06 January 2006 19:51, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Fedora handles this situation by always installing the synaptics package > > and setting up the X config file automatically if the computer has a > > synaptics touchpad. I guess this approach could work for other > > distributions too. > > The problem we have is a bit different (or I didn't understand > something). The mac trackpad has it's own kernel driver and is all > relative mode. Luca's patch will make it work in absolute mode instead > for use with X synaptic driver, thus providing more "features" than the > default relative-mode one. > > So what we are looking for is a way to have the kernel driver switch > between raw and ps2 modes based on instruction/ioctl from the userland > client (the X synaptic driver). This shouldn't be much of a problem if > the X synaptic driver switches it to raw at X start and on EnterVT and > back to what it was on LeaveVT... >
Why would you want to switch to relative mode when leaving X? As far as I know the only other mouse "user" out there is GPM and there are patches available for it to use event device:
http://geocities.com/dt_or/gpm/gpm.html
Unfortunately the maintainer can't find time to merge these so they were sitting there for over 2 years. FWIW Fedora patches their GPM with these.
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