On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 19:41, Eric Sammer wrote:
> It seems that kernel versions >= 2.6.0-test6 and the xfree synaptics 
> touchpad driver <= 0.11.6 (or maybe even 0.11.7) are incompatible. 
> According to the Synaptics driver site 
> (http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad) this is known. The 
> x11-misc/synaptics-0.11.8 ebuild is masked with the comment "until xfree 
> stops installing the same files" which is understandable.
> 
> The question is now is this something that someone is working on (as the 
> xfree ebuild is what adds the synaptics driver "by hand" and not using a 
> dependency on the ebuild) or can I go ahead and do this without 
> duplicating effort? I'd like to test the later test distros of the 
> kernel, but not being able to run X is kind of annoying (not that it's 
> anyone's fault).

The xfree ebuild itself currently builds the synaptics driver, version
0.11.8 at present. You need to rebuild xfree to get a new version of the
synaptics driver at present, since not until the latest synaptics
version was it possible to build externally. Future revisions of xfree
will have synaptics build externally (4.3.0-r4, 4.3.99.15).

grep ^SYN_VER /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3.ebuild to see which
version you'll get at any given time.

I already have an ebuild ready for 4.3.99.15 that does this the way it
will be done, but as 4.3.99.15 isn't out yet I can't commit it. =)