problems with today's rawhide

[Paul Nasrat]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 01:37:57AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> Paul Nasrat wrote:
> >On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 04:46:27PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:

> >http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=synaptics

> There is a problem with some synaptic touchpads (like many Sony Vaios) 

OK do you have a specific model in mind (or multiple) if so I can try and get my hands on one.

> that are not detected by and seemingly unfixable for the synaptics 
> XFree86 driver.  

Could you bugzilla, CC me and attach the output of /proc/modules and
/proc/bus/input/devices.  Also attach your X86Config.

> 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. 

If you can get me more information I can have a look.  You can also add debug
into i8042.c, but I'd like to try and reproduce your issues.

> haven't spent a lot of time experimenting with forcing the driver to 
> skip detection yet so I don't know.

NP. Though my gut feeling is this is best for FC2 test1.  Once it's released I'll try and write up a faq for synaptics users.

Paul