patch: use Xrecord extension in syndaemon to avoid polling

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Wed Oct 15 17:45:52 PDT 2008


On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:35:37PM +0200, Andre Herms wrote:
>    Attached is a patch for the syndaemon of the synaptics driver. It
>    prevents the
>    polling of the keyboard state. Instead it uses the XRecord extension of
>    the
>    Xserver for an event triggered notification of key events. Of course,
>    there
>    is a fallback to the polling when no XRecord extension is found. This
>    should
>    finally stop complains of syndaemon preventing good power saving.
>    Comments are welcome.

Thanks for the patch! There's a number of irrelevant white-space changes in
that patch. Can you please clean it up and re-send it? Thanks.

Cheers,
  Peter



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