From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 2 16:36:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB7337B423 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 16:36:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000902233642.CZZL27630.femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 16:36:42 -0700 Message-ID: <39B12CA7.44814EF2@home.com> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 16:36:55 +0000 From: rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Galt Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Synaptics touchpad config program\ Python hacking References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG First I need to see if I can communicate with /dev/psaux via the Python console. I need to start brewing some coffee to build up the initiative. So once I start hacking on this, I assume I'm in the jurisdiction of some other mailing list. What would be appropriate? Rob. John Galt wrote: > > THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!!!!! Can I assist in the test? > > On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, rob wrote: > > > Someone asked a week or so ago about the Synaptics touch pad 'driver'. > > I have the Linux source here. It is not really a driver, but a config > > utility which sets up the pad so that the extra functions work. So it > > looks pretty simple so I've decided I will try to port it. > > Unfortunately it uses the deprecated 'ftime' function, and also > > 'getopt_long' which doesn't seem to work even though getopt.h on my > > system seems to include this. > > > > I'm more of a Python programmer. Maybe I can write Python config > > program. Rob. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -- > When you are having a bad day, and it seems like everybody is trying to > tick you off, remember that it takes 42 muscles to produce a frown, but > only 4 muscles to work the trigger of a good sniper rifle. > > Who is John galt? Galt@inconnu.isu.edu, that's who! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message