Re: synaptics touchpad not working with 2.4.x (fwd)

[Arndt S. <ab...@sr...>]

Hi Vojtech,

while you are at it, talking about ruby's psaux driver:

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:44:30PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 08:50:37AM -0700, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > Does the i8042 drivers we have support this device?
> 
> We don't have a specific driver for this. It should emulate a normal
> PS/2 mouse, though.
> 
> The current 2.4 code chokes on the 0xaa character this device likes to
> send and resets it quite often. The ruby code is protected against this
> while still capable to detect mouse reconnects (the reason 0xaa handling
> is in 2.4).
> 
> 2.4 can't be fixed, because of its psaux byte-stream oriented
> architecture. 2.2 doesn't handle mouse reconnects. Ruby understand the
> psmouse protocol and thus handles everything gracefully.

Does ruby allow to send data down to a psaux device? I will need this
functionality to improve the Linux support for the Twiddler2 (to allow
reprogramming of the chord-to-scancode mapping table which is kept
inside the device itself).

Thank you,
Arndt