problems with today's rawhide

[Warren Togami]

Paul Nasrat wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 04:46:27PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> 
> 
>> Synaptic touchpad on my old athlon laptop was misdetected this way
>> in FC1.  Newer synaptic model in my new Thinkpad T41 is similarly 
>> misdetected as PS/2 wheel too.
> 
> 
> The synaptics issue is one that really needs to be looked into.  My
> own particular feeling at the moment is we should look at using
> psmouse.proto=imps for synaptics setups for test1, possibly look at
> including synaptics driver itself for test2.
> 
> I have a reasonably clean spec for synaptics driver, I need to add
> synclient/syndaemon to the Imakefile and push changes upstream.
> Timescale on this is going to sometime after next weekend due to real
> life issues.
> 
> If anyone is intrested in working on getting the synaptics detection
> done, please let me know.
> 
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=synaptics
> 
> Paul
> 
> 

There is a problem with some synaptic touchpads (like many Sony Vaios) 
that are not detected by and seemingly unfixable for the synaptics 
XFree86 driver.  I suspect there is something obscure and undocumented 
about these older touchpads that could possibly be used in order to 
actually interface with its functionality, but it cannot be detected.  I 
haven't spent a lot of time experimenting with forcing the driver to 
skip detection yet so I don't know.

Warren