Re: Bug#352303: ITP: gsynaptics -- configuration tool for Synaptics touchpad driver of X
Hi,
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 05:15:17PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 11:38:03PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > Oops. I think I was careless.
...
> > It looks like "synclient" is not always used.
>
> Be really careful then! We have to synchronize uploads when the shared
> memory segment layout of the driver changes.
Hey, I hope I was not too careless :-)
> <download, build, run, inspect>
I guess from the upstream.
> Oh, wait. Gsynaptics already includes a different (much older) version
> of struct SynapticsSHM. It won't work with the current synaptics driver
> available in etch.
Yep.
> I tested 0.9.5 here that destroyed my runtime configuration :)
> Probably taking synaptics.h from the driver sources and stripping the
> unnecessary definitions (the non public part, see comments) is enough.
Well, adjusting such differences are part of maintainership, I guess.
I hope I did a useful job.
gsynaptics (0.9.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Initial package for Debian based on the work of Ikuya Awashiro
<ikuya@fruitsbasket.info> for Ubuntu with minor changes
such as removing unused dpatch dependency. (closes: Bug#352303)
* Update shared memory structure to match Debian
xfree86-driver-synaptics-0.14.4-1 .
-- Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:50:33 +0900
> BTW: I'll soon upload a new revision recommending [gk]synaptics.
Hey, that sounds very interesting. If you see your packages does better
job under GTK library environment, let me know. I will be happy to give
way to your gsynaptics to avoid name space conflict. Keep me updated.
Osamu
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