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On Thursday 13 November 2003 22:54, Philip Paeps wrote:
> I've recently started work on getting psm to support Synaptics TouchPads
> more fully: virtual scrollbars, up/down buttons, multiple finger detection,
> etc.  I have the basics working, but my brain has been too fried lately to
> deal with the maths of translating absolute coordinates to sensibly
> accelerated motions.

Ooh nice :)
Can you put it up somewhere so I can have a look?

There is an XFree86 Synaptics driver which you could probably glean some ideas 
from.. http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/

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