[Debian-eeepc-devel] Synaptics driver fail on EEE PC 900

[Fabio Pugliese Ornellas]

I still didn't get any response from either Asus or the packager.
Anyone with contacts on the inside can help us on this matter?

Thank you.

On 2008-07-28, Fabio Pugliese Ornellas <fabio.ornellas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Updates:
>
> Since there is no kernel changes regarding Elantech touchpad, I de facto
> found a lot of entries on the changelog of the xorg synaptics driver which
> came with my EEE PC 900 saying it has beeen altered to work with this
> Elantech device. I repacked it and tryed at my Debian testing, but the
> driver won't load (xorg complain about missing symbols or whatever). And
> worse, I could find no source code for those driver alterations.
>
> I am finding really strange, that such forum posts (you mentioned
> Alessandro) envolve patching the kernel, since Asus itself didn't do that in
> first place. Well, I contacted both Asus and the guy tho signed the
> xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package changelog asking for the source code of
> the alterations. The worst I can listen is a no, but I really hope the
> copyright owner of that code understands the high importance of releasing it
> for a better operating system compatibility of such devices.
>
> I'll be on hold on the matter, until I hear something from one of the
> contacted parties.
>
> Bye.
>
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> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 05:43, Alessandro Pellizzari <alex at amiran.it> wrote:
>
>> Il giorno dom, 27/07/2008 alle 19.02 -0300, Fabio Pugliese Ornellas ha
>> scritto:
>>
>> > Alessandro, if you could point me to the forum topics you mentioned,
>> > i'd appreciate.
>>
>> Yes, here they are:
>>
>> http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=30685
>> http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=32303
>>
>>
>> > I'll report here my future findings.
>>
>> Thank you very much. I am greatly interested. :)
>>
>> Bye.
>>
>> --
>> Alessandro Pellizzari
>>
>>
>>
>


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