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

[Fabio Pugliese Ornellas]

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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