On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 12:29 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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.
Yes, there is a vuidsynps2 module. :-) Maybe sometime in the near
future I'll be able to spend some time looking at this. FWIW, I sent
the code Casper a few months back. ;-)
- Garrett
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