[ANNOUNCE] synaptics-alt 0.9.3

Colin Guthrie gmane at colin.guthr.ie
Fri Jul 4 01:35:31 PDT 2008


Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:19:45AM -0700, Paul Vojta wrote:
>> This is to announce version 0.9.3 of my (alternate) Synaptics touchpad
>> driver.  This driver differs from the standard one in that it has only
>> one author (so far), and hence no copyright issues.  Also, it uses an
>> extension for configuration instead of shared memory.
>>
>> This version features an up-to-date man page, an up-to-date configuration
>> utility (command line only, sorry), and support for the Linux INPUT driver
>> (as provided with recent 2.6 kernels).
>>
>> It can be accessed at the following url:
>>
>> 	http://math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/xf86-input-synaptics-0.99.3.tar.bz2
> 
> Sounds promising. Very much appreciated. Any chance to release it as
> synaptics-alt, so distributors can easily pick it up and ship it as
> alternative driver, which can be installed at the same time?

Oh don't use synaptics-alt, think of something cooler!

How about postsynaptics?

According to Wikipedia:
"Chemical synapses pass information directionally from a presynaptic 
cell to a postsynaptic cell and are therefore asymmetric in structure 
and function."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapse

Col




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