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[Leonardo M <leonrm@xxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: chase.douglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:07:44 -0500
> To: stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Multi-touch-dev] uTouch for Lucid Lynx
> 
> On 01/27/2011 09:16 AM, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 06:01 -0800, Duncan M. McGreggor wrote:
>>> On Jan 23, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Leonardo Morelli wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I was wondering if there's a way to use uTouch in Kubuntu 10.04
>>>> Lucid. I
>>>> was able to install it on Maverick but had to switch back to Lucid
>>>> (video card related issues). And now I can't find a version for Lucid.
>>>> What about building it from source in Lucid? would it work?
>> 
>> There's no reason why _most_ of the uTouch stack should not just build
>> and run fine on 10.04.  The one exception is the evdev plugin for the
>> x.org server:  10.04 and 10.10 use the same upstream version of the
>> x.org server but the version of the evdev plugin we use as part of the
>> uTouch stack (2.3) is much newer than the one found in 10.04 (1.8).
>> Unfortunately this is Chase's area of expertise and I have no idea how
>> much effort would be required to backport evdev 1.8 to Lucid or what
>> impact it would have.
> 
> One would need to patch both xserver-xorg-input-evdev and xorg-server.
> Then, you probably will need to be running a newer kernel than 2.6.32. I
> would suspect that the kernels from maverick or natty should work fine
> in lucid. Of course, then you have to build all the utouch stack on top
> of that :).
> 
> -- Chase

I think I'll wait until I upgrade to Maverick or Natty, it looks like I can make a serious mess here :P
If only my video card worked in Maverick...

Thanks anyway!
Leo

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