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On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 19:41, Eric Sammer wrote: |
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> It seems that kernel versions >= 2.6.0-test6 and the xfree synaptics |
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> touchpad driver <= 0.11.6 (or maybe even 0.11.7) are incompatible. |
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> According to the Synaptics driver site |
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> (http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad) this is known. The |
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> x11-misc/synaptics-0.11.8 ebuild is masked with the comment "until xfree |
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> stops installing the same files" which is understandable. |
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> The question is now is this something that someone is working on (as the |
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> xfree ebuild is what adds the synaptics driver "by hand" and not using a |
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> dependency on the ebuild) or can I go ahead and do this without |
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> duplicating effort? I'd like to test the later test distros of the |
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> kernel, but not being able to run X is kind of annoying (not that it's |
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> anyone's fault). |
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The xfree ebuild itself currently builds the synaptics driver, version |
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0.11.8 at present. You need to rebuild xfree to get a new version of the |
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synaptics driver at present, since not until the latest synaptics |
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version was it possible to build externally. Future revisions of xfree |
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will have synaptics build externally (4.3.0-r4, 4.3.99.15). |
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grep ^SYN_VER /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3.ebuild to see which |
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version you'll get at any given time. |
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I already have an ebuild ready for 4.3.99.15 that does this the way it |
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will be done, but as 4.3.99.15 isn't out yet I can't commit it. =) |
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