[PATCH synaptics] man: note that a PS/2 device is not supported

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Sun Sep 4 16:28:13 PDT 2011


If all we see is a PS/2 Mouse or similar, then the kernel doesn't give us
the required bits to provide all the functionality we want. Note that in the
man-page.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
---
 man/synaptics.man |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/synaptics.man b/man/synaptics.man
index cb5f4c6..b6b1dce 100644
--- a/man/synaptics.man
+++ b/man/synaptics.man
@@ -66,7 +66,9 @@ taps for example.)
 The name "synaptics" is historical and the driver still provides the
 synaptics protocol parsing code. Under Linux however, the hardware-specifics
 are handled by the kernel and this driver will work for any touchpad that
-has a working kernel driver.
+has a working kernel driver. If your device is recognized as \*qPS/2
+Mouse\*q or similar, the kernel driver does not support your device and this
+driver will only provide limited functionality.
 
 .SH CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
 Please refer to __xconfigfile__(__filemansuffix__) for general configuration
-- 
1.7.6



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