[gobolinux-users] GoboLinux 014 snapshot 20071010

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:13:38 +0200, Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus at wotfun.com> wrote:

> On 10/14/07, Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus at wotfun.com> wrote:
>> On 10/14/07, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 10/13/07, Michael Homer <gobo-users-dufus at wotfun.com> wrote:
>> > > The Synaptics touchpad
>> > > and the winmodem weren't set up either, but the software isn't on the
>> > > ISO for them so that'd be expected. So no real problems, and nothing
>> > > outside the hardware detection at all.
>> >
>> > Besides adding the Synaptics package to the CD, would any extra config
>> > step be necessary?
>> Actually, it doesn't seem the package does anything (it's just some
>> extra tools). It needs the "synaptics" driver in Xorg, which isn't
>> there (it's not part of the recipe), and an entry to use it in
>> xorg.conf. I will look into what's necessary to get that going.
> Ok: synaptics_drv.o, compiled (but not installed) as part of the
> Synaptics recipe needs to go in
> /P/Xorg/Current/lib/xorg/modules/input/, which I don't think is
> possible within the current technology without including it within the
> Xorg meta-recipe. It's not part of Xorg proper for license reasons
> (X11/GPL). The executables are just tweaking tools.

It's probably possible with some tweaking of the Xorg-Server recipe. I've
added --with-module-dir=${goboLibraries}/xorg/modules to the configure
options with Xorg-Server 1.4, so it should be possible to make
synaptics_drv.o available in ${goboLibraries}/xorg/modules/input with
later versions of Xorg. As we are not shipping with Xorg 7.3 maybe
backporting this option is a good idea?

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/Jonas

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