On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Warren Turkal wrote: >>> In that case it can hardly be an X problem. Sounds rather like the >>> kernel (anything interesting in its output? Does the same thing happen >>> with 2.4 kernels?) or hardware. >> >> I am testing 4.2.1 at this point to see if I come up with the same issues >> as with 4.3.0. >> >> Warren Turkal > >I came up with the same issues as with 4.3. It turns out that I was running >a not-the-latest version of the synaptics event driver for XFree86. I >looked in the changelog of the newest one, and it claims to have a work >around for a bug in XFree86 that could cause lockups. Does this bug still >exist? > >Here is link to the driver: >http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html > >I guess my personal suspicions that it was only locking while I was using >the touchpad could have had some merit. I am sorry I did not mention that >earlier. Is the synaptics driver to be included in XFree86 anytime soon >since it is required with 2.6 kernels on computers with synaptics >touchpads? You cannot use a regular ps2 mouse driver without lots of >contortions (ie kernel options).
It's GPL licensed unfortunately. Only MIT licensed code is accepted into XFree86, so this driver will never be included. That means once kernel 2.6 is standard, the majority of laptop users with synaptics touchpads will have to rely on their OS distribution to provide the GPL driver, or will have to compile it themselves. The only other option would be for someone to write a brand new driver for synaptics and license it as MIT, without looking at the GPL driver's source code. It's possible to do a clean room implementation, but I'm not sure if anyone would really want to bother when there's a working driver already. -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
