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

[Fabio Pugliese Ornellas]

Well, I've done some research.

I found some kernel source code at http://update.eeepc.asus.com/p900/misc/,
which I hope is the one regarding the kernel which came running with my EEE
PC 900.

I made a diff of the vanilla agains this version, the only changes I found
were:

   - Support for a new USB modem
   - Support for UnionFS
   - Sound card patch

So, there's not a thing regarding synaptics driver there. I guess they
patched the Xorg driver, I will try to find their source code and do the
same thing as I did with the kernel.

Alessandro, if you could point me to the forum topics you mentioned, i'd
appreciate.

I'll report here my future findings.

Bye.

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On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 05:49, Alessandro Pellizzari <alex at amiran.it> wrote:

> Il giorno sab, 26/07/2008 alle 12.46 -0300, Fabio Pugliese Ornellas ha
> scritto:
>
> > I am trying to make my synaptics touchpad work on 900, but it won't
> > recognize the hardware:
> > ...
> > The configuration is pretty much the same as Asus default Xandros, but
> there, it works as expected. My guess is that Asus patched either the kernel
> or the xorg driver to make it work, I'm still to find out which
>
> Asus patched the kernel, the psmouse driver.
> The touchpad is an Elantech one, so maybe they patched the xorg
> synaptics driver too, but I am not sure, because patching psmouse you
> could make the elantech "synaptics compatible".
>
> There has been some work by eeeuser forum users to make the standard
> (kernel) driver recognize horizontal scrolling, zooming and triple touch
> but most of them have problems.
>
> I tried looking to the sources, but I am no kernel developer, and I
> couldn't find a way to fix it. :(
>
> Bye.
>
>
>
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