Question about Xorg 7.1 and the synaptics touch pad driver

[Joshua Baergen]

Oops, I sent this off-list only by accident the first time.

Deron Johnson wrote:
> It looks like Xorg 7.1 no longer loads .o driver files (where is this
> change documented, by the way?). I'm running Fedora Core 5 and it

Yeah, X >6.8.99.15 or so uses DLLoader by default/only.

> only has /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/synaptics_drv.o, not the
> necessary .so file. Where can I find synaptics_drv.so?  I tried building
> the synaptics driver from the 0.14.6 version on
> http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad (which is the latest) but it
> only builds the .o file. Thanks for your help.

I believe you just have to add '-fPIC' to the CFLAGS in the Makefile to
build that way.

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Joshua Baergen