Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] synaptics-alt 0.9.3

[martinko]

Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
> Maybe worthy of a FreeBSD port ?
> 

and what are the functional differences from standard one ?

> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Paul Vojta <vojta at Math.Berkeley.EDU> -----
> 
> Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 00:19:45 -0700
> From: Paul Vojta <vojta at Math.Berkeley.EDU>
> To: xorg <xorg at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Subject: [ANNOUNCE] synaptics-alt 0.9.3
> 
> This is to announce version 0.9.3 of my (alternate) Synaptics touchpad
> driver.  This driver differs from the standard one in that it has only
> one author (so far), and hence no copyright issues.  Also, it uses an
> extension for configuration instead of shared memory.
> 
> This version features an up-to-date man page, an up-to-date configuration
> utility (command line only, sorry), and support for the Linux INPUT driver
> (as provided with recent 2.6 kernels).
> 
> It can be accessed at the following url:
> 
> 	http://math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/xf86-input-synaptics-0.99.3.tar.bz2
> 
> --Paul Vojta, vojta at math.berkeley.edu