Re: Patch for xserver-xorg-input-synaptics to add a variable Orientation

[Qfeng Chen <qfeng.chen@gmail.com>]

Hi,
I am agree to send this patch to the upstream. I will try to send it.
I also hope the rotation of the touchpad can be done automatically,
but I have not idea how to do this.

regards,
Qfeng
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:41:41 +0100, Qfeng Chen wrote:
>
>> Hello, I patch the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics to make the
>> orientation of the touchpad can be changed to fit the orientation of
>> the screen, when the orientation of the screen is changed by using
>> xrandr. It is a very good function when you read paper on a netbook,
>> and I hope this patch can be add to official patch.
>> This patch is for xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-1.2.0.
>>
> Hi,
>
> a more appropriate place to send this would be to the upstream
> maintainers of the synaptics driver.  Would you mind sending it to
> xorg-devel@lists.x.org?  (There has already been talk of input device
> rotation with randr, and iirc the idea was more to associate the device
> with a crtc so that rotating that crtc would automatically rotate the
> input device)
>
> Thanks,
> Julien
>