From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 26 13:05:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40C79106566C for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:05:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gofdx-freebsd-x11@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1C528FC1E for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:05:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gofdx-freebsd-x11@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ku4am-0000mW-O9 for freebsd-x11@freebsd.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:19:36 +0000 Received: from 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz ([90.178.41.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:19:36 +0000 Received: from gamato by 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:19:36 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:19:24 +0100 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <20080704072833.GH90732@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20081009 SeaMonkey/1.1.12 In-Reply-To: <20080704072833.GH90732@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au> Sender: news Subject: Re: Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] synaptics-alt 0.9.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:05:14 -0000 Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > Maybe worthy of a FreeBSD port ? > and what are the functional differences from standard one ? > > ----- Forwarded message from Paul Vojta ----- > > Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 00:19:45 -0700 > From: Paul Vojta > To: xorg > Subject: [ANNOUNCE] synaptics-alt 0.9.3 > > This is to announce version 0.9.3 of my (alternate) Synaptics touchpad > driver. This driver differs from the standard one in that it has only > one author (so far), and hence no copyright issues. Also, it uses an > extension for configuration instead of shared memory. > > This version features an up-to-date man page, an up-to-date configuration > utility (command line only, sorry), and support for the Linux INPUT driver > (as provided with recent 2.6 kernels). > > It can be accessed at the following url: > > http://math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/xf86-input-synaptics-0.99.3.tar.bz2 > > --Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu