Synaptics driver in Fedora

[Paul Nasrat]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 03:26:20AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 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 

I was going to mail about this this morning anyway. 
> >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.

OK there are some other things which I'll list at the bottom here

> 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).

Apologies once more.

OK you need to drop the patches currently in the spec: 9133/9134 I'm going to
spend time on SDK for 4.4 and HEAD but

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99351#c35

I will resync with rawhide src.rpm now and I'll ensure the patch that has gone
into HEAD will

1) Cleanly apply
2) Cleanly compile (apologies for braindead typo).

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

Indeed.  Other things that need to be done for fc2 test2 timescale *if*
synaptics gets in:

1) autoload evdev
2) generate appropriate config 

Other solution is to ensure that the mouse driver only probes up to imps.

My bandwidth out of work is limited atm and will be so for at least two weeks
- so I'll try and co-ordinate.

Paul