alps glide pad patch

[Guest kortty]

Hello allemaal

 

I finally got my Touchpad tap-feature to work and having a scroll on the external mouse too. And at the same time - Yei!

 

Only thing missing is the glidepad (scrolling feature on the touchpad) and with the drivers (synaptics-0.13.5) there was a reference to alps.patch and it's readme file. I read them, both, but don't understand how to actually patch what ever it is that I should be patching.

 

In readme it says:

"If you use a 2.6 linux kernel, you need to apply the ALPS kernel patch in the alps.patch file."

 

And then in alps.patch:

"This patch implements an ALPS touchpad driver [.. snip]

 

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linux-petero/drivers/input/mouse/Makefile | 2

linux-petero/drivers/input/mouse/alps.c | 422 ++++++++++++++++++++++++

linux-petero/drivers/input/mouse/alps.h | 17

linux-petero/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c | 24 +

linux-petero/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.h | 4

5 files changed, 467 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

 

diff -puN drivers/input/mouse/Makefile~alps drivers/input/mouse/Makefile

--- linux/drivers/input/mouse/Makefile~alps 2004-07-31 11:24:04.000000000 +0200

+++ linux-petero/drivers/input/mouse/Makefile 2004-07-31 11:24:04.000000000 +0200

@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2) += psmouse.o

obj-$(CONFIG_MOUSE_SERIAL) += sermouse.o

obj-$(CONFIG_MOUSE_VSX [.. snip, followed by lots of code]"

 

 

I'm afraid I just don't see what I'm supposed to actually Do next. Should I just put these files somewhere, copy/paste the contents over something else, run a command..

 

The file can be found through this page, should you want to check what I'm referring to:

http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpa...x.html#Download

 

 

baby steps, my friend, baby steps

/kortty

[devries]

It means you have to patch the kernel. The module (driver) that comes with the kernel doesn't support this feature because it has known problems.

 

Read the FAQs about compiling a kernel.

 

To patch the kernel (that is add some extra code to the alp module): After you have downloaded the kernel source and created the link Linux, cd to linux and do (as root 'patch -p1 < /path to patch' (alps.patch)

 

But be warned. You might get problems.

 

Good luck