2.6.0 killed my touchpad... (fixed)

[Jerry McBride]

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 11:31 pm, David A. Bandel wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:21:18 -0400
>
> Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:

> > Oddly enough, I've had excellent results in most cases and absolute
> > failure in one common hardware area... the touchpad.
> >

---snip---

> The synaptic touchpads (I mentioned them in my article).  They work, but
> require an experimental (read: it usually doesn't work) patched X.  Good
> luck.
>

---snip---

> won't fix the touchpad issue because (AFAICT) it's not a kernel problem.
>

I got the touchpad problem fixed! Under gentoo, simply using the "mm-sources". 
What the latest version of the mm-sources is, a slightly patched 2.6.0 test 2 
kernel package. You can ftp the patches from ftp.kernel.org. All you need do 
is run menuconfig, turn on synaptics support and compile the kernel as 
normal. Once installed, your touchpad now works as before.

Yeah!

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