New maintainer for the tpconfig driver is Bruce Kall.
Newer versions of the synaptics driver:
- Stand-alone
(C. Scott Ananian, 1997, no longer maintained).
- Stand-alone
(Bruce Kall, 1998-2000, based on the above).
- XFree86
driver (Stefan Gmeiner, 2001, parts derived from Ananian/Kall work).
- XFree86
driver (Peter Österlund, 2003, based on the above).
Other related links:
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The last version of
the Linux driver posted on this site is 0.1.1.
The driver is free software, licensed under the terms of the GPL.
See the file COPYING for details.
Previous versions of the driver and
RPM format distributions
can be found in the file archive.
What is the Synaptics TouchPad?
The TouchPad is a pointing device used in notebooks by Acer, Compaq,
Dell, Gateway, Olivetti, TI, Winbook, and others. Synaptics' homepage
is at http://www.synaptics.com.
Current status
Bruce Kall has taken over maintenance of this project.
See his page at http://www.compass.com/synaptics/.