From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pizza@shaftnet.org
Cc: jhf@rivenstone.net
Subject: Re: 2.6 must-fix, v4
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 22:42:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030517054213.GF29926@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030517051621.GA10348@rivenstone.net>
On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 01:16:21AM -0400, Joseph Fannin wrote:
> The patch Solomon posted is finally enough for me to use 2.5 on my
> laptop, but it doesn't restore all the functionality available via
> tpconfig (and friends), so that's a regression that could probably be
> called a 'must-fix'. If he could make an absolute mode driver work it
> would have more features than tpconfig, and also not break the input
> layer's abstraction of pointing devices, IMHO.
> Without any patch, 2.5 is a frustratingly unusable experience for
> me, and though I might have been the first vocal laptop user, I'm sure
> I won't be the last.
My laptop seems to be doing fine. Touchpads could be very important to
some people, though.
It's a large overstatement to say this makes all laptops unusable.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-17 5:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-16 23:17 2.6 must-fix, v4 Andrew Morton
2003-05-16 23:17 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-17 1:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-17 5:16 ` Joseph Fannin
2003-05-17 5:42 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-05-17 12:34 ` Stuffed Crust
2003-05-17 19:29 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-05-17 8:05 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-05-19 23:33 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-20 0:51 ` Chris Mason
2003-05-16 23:33 ` Greg KH
[not found] <20030516233011$3c2c@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <20030516233013$140e@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-05-18 6:45 ` Andi Kleen
2003-05-18 18:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-05-18 6:45 ` Andi Kleen
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