Re: Eee PC 900's touchpad is not recognised as synaptics

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20080922195332.GA1322%eeegoo.tumfatig.net@localhost>,
Joel CARNAT  <joel%carnat.net@localhost> wrote:
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>Hello,
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>Looking at manpages to learn how to configure edge motion, I saw that
>the touchpad from my Eee PC 900 is not recognised as a synaptics one.
>On my Eee PC 701, the touchpad is recognised as a synaptics touchpad.
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>I found here
>(http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Model/900#head-2893956846a0aecb8407e10d13cf4e50b2ef0357)
>that a patch needs to be applied to the Debian Linux kernel for the
>touchpad to be recognized as a synaptics one.
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>Should NetBSD's pms(4) sources be modified to recognise the 900's
>touchpad ?

It would require a different driver it seems since the packet format
is different:

http://arjan.opmeer.net/elantech/

does not look too hard to do.

christos