From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15828 invoked by uid 1002); 21 Oct 2003 23:41:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 26238 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2003 23:41:57 -0000 Message-ID: <3F95C443.1000203@ineoconcepts.com> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:41:55 -0400 From: Eric Sammer Organization: Ineo Concepts User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on samus X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.60 Subject: [gentoo-dev] xfree, synaptics, and kernel 2.6.x X-Archives-Salt: 3b5d6f57-9c55-49ea-901c-bf55e5183624 X-Archives-Hash: 64e557b6eb4a3a14cdd0ef4bda2ab01d 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). TIA. -- Eric Sammer eric@ineoconcepts.com -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list