From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 2 16:50:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inconnu.isu.edu (inconnu.isu.edu [134.50.8.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F7A137B424 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 16:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (galt@localhost) by inconnu.isu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA32209; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 17:49:40 -0600 Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 17:49:39 -0600 (MDT) From: John Galt To: rob Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Synaptics touchpad config program\ Python hacking In-Reply-To: <39B12CA7.44814EF2@home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FYI, some synaptics devices (like mine) are on cuaaX (serial)... On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, rob wrote: > 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 > -- 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