Bug#522920: ELANTECH and lenny xorg
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:25:59 -0700, Matt Taggart wrote:
> Regarding turning on CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_ELANTECH...
>
> According the kernel help text,
>
> Note that if you enable this driver you will need an updated
> X.org Synaptics driver that does not require ABS_PRESSURE
> reports from the touchpad (i.e. post 1.5.0 version). You can
> grab a patch for the driver here:
>
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~dtor/synaptics-no-abspressure.patch
>
> The lenny version does not contain this patch.
>
> As long as being able to backport a newer kernel to lenny is a goal, this
> driver shouldn't be turned on.
>
Or we could just add the xf86-input-synaptics patch in lenny r2, if
somebody cares to file a bug against that...
Cheers,
Julien
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