Bug 111083 – Ebuild Request - GPM w/ Synaptics

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Kyle Lemons 2005-10-31 20:41:20 UTC]

I would write this ebuild myself if I had the skills and the time to maintain
it, but on the site linked above there is a set of patches that can be epatched
onto the appropriate gpm source to make a laptop synaptics touchpad compatible gpm.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Not really a bug =/

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2005-11-01 06:48:51 UTC]

the current gpm repo has incorporated that code afaict

backporting it to the last release would be a lot more effort so just
sit tight and wait for the next release of gpm ;)

[Comment 2 Ed Catmur 2006-01-14 12:10:27 UTC]

Created attachment 77100 [details]
gpm-1.20.1-r5.ebuild

[Comment 3 Ed Catmur 2006-01-14 12:10:52 UTC]

Created attachment 77101 [details]
README.evdev

[Comment 4 Ed Catmur 2006-01-14 12:11:17 UTC]

Created attachment 77102 [details, diff]
gpm-1.20.1-evdev-endianness.patch

[Comment 5 Ed Catmur 2006-01-14 12:11:41 UTC]

Created attachment 77103 [details, diff]
gpm-1.20.1-evdev-responsiveness.patch

[Comment 6 Ed Catmur 2006-01-14 12:12:56 UTC]

This ebuild works with appletouch touchpad on ibook G4.

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2006-01-14 12:25:18 UTC]

where did you get those additional evdev patches ?  they arent in the upstream gpm git repo

[Comment 8 Ed Catmur 2006-01-14 12:33:40 UTC]

No, I wrote them myself. I couldn't make much sense of the git repo, tbh.

[Comment 9 Ed Catmur 2006-01-14 15:22:01 UTC]

Oh, I should point out if anyone is thinking of using the ebuild: it disables some Gentoo patches that I couldn't get to harmonise with the synaptics patches (not that I really tried) so some regressions are possible.

[Comment 10 SpanKY 2006-01-14 18:05:39 UTC]

> No, I wrote them myself. I couldn't make much sense of the git repo, tbh.

i just wanted some info before i committed them ... not that i really understand seeing as how i dont know the evdev code at all

[Comment 11 SpanKY 2006-01-19 16:38:20 UTC]

Ed: can you gimme a description of each patch so i can use it in the `git commit` message ?

[Comment 12 Ed Catmur 2006-01-19 19:43:31 UTC]

gpm-1.20.1-evdev-endianness.patch: evdev capabilities ioctl (EVIOCGBIT) bit array is packed as unsigned long, not as char (fix for big-endian machines)

gpm-1.20.1-evdev-responsiveness.patch: adjust delta calculation to give usable movement on Appletouch touchpads

Thanks!

[Comment 13 SpanKY 2006-01-23 15:35:15 UTC]

ok, ive committed both upstream, thanks