Touchpad

[Jordan Crouse]

On 27/09/06 15:27 -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 15:08 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > Andres has managed to get it working here; exactly what incantations are
> > required, I'm not sure.
> > 
> > Zephaniah Hull (who has been working on this), is currently quite sick,
> > so progress on that end on hold pending him feeling better.
> > 
> > Andres, what did you end up having to do?
> > 
> > You certainly need a Bios upgrade: the symptoms you describe are those
> > we had here until the right registers were set for the PS/2 port.
> >                                 Regards,
> >                                    - Jim
> > 
> 
> First, you have to build a new linuxbios image using buildrom.  That's
> described here:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Building_LinuxBIOS
> You definitely want to use revision 2432 or newer (that's what I used).
> Edit Config.mk, setting LINUXBIOS_VER to that.  LinuxBios doesn't
> currently build under Fedora, but it builds just fine under Ubuntu
> (dapper).

Buildrom HEAD is set for the correct revision now, as is the tagged version
20060926-1.

Jordan
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Jordan Crouse
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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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