Synaptics driver in Fedora

Rui Miguel Seabra rms at 1407.org
Tue Feb 3 09:39:09 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 09:31, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 08:26, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> But it _is_ a priority for me. FC2 will be quite a pain to use if that
> driver isn't working. I suspect many laptops will suffer from the same
> problem.

I actually tried upgrading to rawhide's Linux 2.6.1 because I miss
software suspend terribly (I have none ATM because this laptop only does
ACPI and swsusp is really hard to merge with FC's 2.4.22), but as soon
as I upgraded XFree86 (hoping it had the synaptics updated driver) I had
to roll back to FC1's Linux since the mouse was very close to unusable.

Hugs, Rui

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