[ltp] [Fwd: [Fwd: A linux driver for IBM TrackPoint devices (GPL)]]

Harald Milz linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Sun, 13 Feb 2000 10:27:27 +0100 (CET)


Bill Mair <bill.mair@bm-soft.com> wrote:
> The last time I read this it just said how to boot Linux from windows with MWave
> sound support.
> I just had a look at the latest one though. It says "documentation of sorts"....

Yep it's the SDK description, not the MWave doc as such. The friendly folks
who managed to get the stuff couldn't get more. Torsten has been trying to
reverse engineer the specs since (Feb 1998 IIRC). But he's actually doing
that in his "spare time" between Caldera builds. 

> Oh thanks Harald. If I would have been "just waiting for something to happen"
> then I
> wouldn't have started the petition would I. And until very recently that was just
> about
> the only pro-active thing anyone could do.

Sorry to undervalue the petition but I know IBM long enough to know that
600-odd underwriters don't impress IBM legal much.

-- 
"Give me enough medals, and I'll win any war."
		-- Napolean

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