[opensuse-factory] 3M's src TWDrv.
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, (No answer for the call for GPL and getting the driver in the official kernel...yet...) But as it is very dangerous, and also very difficullt, to use a mouse in a car..(while driving), i tried to build the suggested driver for 'specific' kernel.. Helas, it did not build. So i wrote to 3M about it: [snip]
+ rm -rf /var/tmp/TWDrv-5.64-root + KVER=2.6.18.8-0.3-default + export KVER + cd TwDrvKit + make clean + make make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18.8-0.3-default/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/packages/BUILD/TWDrv-5.64/TwDrvKit modules make[2]: *** Er is geen regel om doel 'modules' te maken. Gestopt. make[1]: *** [default] Fout 2 make: *** [makeit] Fout 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.81539 (%build)
RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.81539 (%build) monkey9@U-Buddy-sfn8:/usr/src/packages/SPECS> cd '/usr/src/packages/SPECS' monkey9@U-Buddy-sfn8:/usr/src/packages/SPECS>
is there something i can do about it? Despite the fact that it is not a GPL-licenced driver, i still need it, because it is very dangerous, and difficult, to use a mouse in a car.
tia, for the trouble and attention needed to answer my question.
Possible reason, according to an associate from 3M, jgmciver:
Good Afternoon: I think the kernel that you are using made devfs obsolete in favor of using udev. Our driver compiles with devfs, but I have attached a document with some suggested changes to get around this probelm
Thank you, Technical Support 3M Touch Systems, Methuen 978-659-9200
Helas, the document attached, did not contain a solution for this problem.. The Kernel indeed uses udev, if i recall correct.. But if so, is there something to be done about it, to get the driver built? Or, as TWDrv, is indeed a proprietary driver, this can only be fixed by its maintainer?..... (i would realy hate it, to have to go back M$, to have a working touchscreen..:-( (In my reply I asked for the reason not to want a GPL for the driver, and told him about the miljons of people all over the world, that would be happy, if they could use a touchscreen under linux, which would be possible, when the driver would be in the official kernel... ) - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-03-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: monkey9@tribal-sfn2 Systeem: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) KDE: 3.5.5 "release 45.4" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGRZx0X5/X5X6LpDgRArJHAKCOFXRniSFOF8dUTzi2u7Nad/CbMwCdGPY9 vv3qL4/wmKTIHz3AYxINmoA= =N1vz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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Good Afternoon: I think the kernel that you are using made devfs obsolete in favor of using udev. Our driver compiles with devfs, but I have attached a document with some suggested changes to get around this probelm
devfs is not part of the official Linux since quite some time :-( Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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Good Afternoon: I think the kernel that you are using made devfs obsolete in favor of using udev. Our driver compiles with devfs, but I have attached a document with some suggested changes to get around this probelm
devfs is not part of the official Linux since quite some time :-(
Andreas
Thnx, this is the answer i was waiting for....(but not realy:-( Only thing i found out is that Damir Suljic, who is, or was working for 3M wrote the linux part of the driver... http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0501.3/0836.html is one of the 2 posts i found.. but i do not know an e-mail addres, to write to him directly..(these kind of things realy suck, not to be able to talk to the people who are responsible directly..like dead-ends..) - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-03-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: monkey9@tribal-sfn2 Systeem: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) KDE: 3.5.5 "release 45.4" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGRbpJX5/X5X6LpDgRAmP7AJ9FlSJZNQrun1OK/ZJFUG0vfTmxgQCfZJUj MJMDzCr239OClufJEE3nEU0= =fpRQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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