Synaptics driver in Fedora

[Mike A. Harris]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Warren Togami wrote:

>Mike Harris said that he would integrate the Synaptics touchpad driver 
>into the Fedora RPM if somebody does the necessary work to integrate it 
>cleanly, test, and submit the patches.  It is an extremely low priority 
>for him so it is highly unlikely that it wont happen unless somebody 
>does this necessary work.
>
>I would suggest posting your suggested patches for the .spec and discuss 
>driver setup procedure on this list, if you prepare this.

To clarify....

The synaptics package wont compile with the XFree86-SDK.  Paul 
Nasrat has worked on this but never sent me a patch that cleanly 
applies to the current Fedora rpm, and cleanly compiles.  (the 
last patch applied but didn't compile).

It's not a priority to me, so I haven't looked into fixing it, 
however if Paul or someone else wants to fix it and send me via 
bugzilla, the proper patch that allows the synaptics rpm to 
compile using the XFree86-SDK, having *tested* the patch with 
XFree86 src.rpm first, and compiled the synaptics driver against 
it, I'd be glad to add it to FC2.

I might also then add the synaptics package also, but that's 
something I'd need to review first before commiting to it.


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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat