Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 09:23 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Christian Kelly wrote:
>>> anyone know anything about a synaptic (trackpad) driver? I'm using a
>>> macbook (core duo, non-pro) on which the trackpad doesn't work by default.
>>> I get a cryptic message from frkit about it being supported in Xorg 7.2 in
>>> 32bit.
>> Casper had made a customized version of Xorg's mouse_drv.so
>> in frkit that was able to use extended features of the
>> synaptic trackpad, but I don't know if that's in the external
>> frkit or only the internal one.
>>
>> There's a separate synaptics driver that some Linux distros
>> ship, but I believe it's Linux-only and GPL, so we've never
>> been able to ship it with Xorg on Solaris.
>>
>
> I have a synaptics driver designed for tadpole sparc systems, that
> carries a tadpole copyright, but tadpole has given me permission to push
> it into Solaris. I've not done this as, quite frankly, I've never had
> the time to work on it.
>
> If someone within Sun has the necessary expertise (i8042, X11) and wants
> to work on it, please let me know.
I'm happy to help with the X side, but if you're also providing ON
changes (I think you mentioned a VUID module before), you'll need
someone else to work on that side.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
