[LAU] Midipoke 0.1, an XY(Z)-controller for touchpads

[Raine M. Ekman]

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Igor Brkic wrote:
> I first tried on my main computer (dell XPS m1530) with Arch on it.
> Configure script wasn't working. It reports [1]. But inspite of that
> make went through without problems. SHM is enabled in HAL (at least I
> think - 'synclient -m 100' works). But when I try to run it it reports
> [2]. But there is Alps touchpad in it (it is using synaptics driver
> but it is not made by Synaptics) and maybe that is the reason.
>
> Then I tried on Asus Eee 701 with Jolicloud (Ubuntu variant) on it.
> This time configure script worked, 'synclient -m 100' worked too, but
> again when I try to run it (./midipoke -x 1 -a), I get the same error
> [2].
>
>
> Regards!
> Igor
>
>
> [1]:
> ./checkheaders.sh
> ./checkheaders.sh: line 5: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)'
> ./checkheaders.sh: line 23: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> make: *** [check] Error 2
>
> [2]: Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled?


If 'synclient -m 100' reports some numbers there is hope, no matter what 
the actual hardware is, Alps or Synaptics or Acme or whatever.

[1] That script only checks for the required headers, it's only a helper 
and not a configure script per se. Some day I'll get around to navigating 
the autoconf jungle, but for now this is what I have.

The bug seems to come from some versions of bash accepting comments 
inside a $(...) statement and some don't. This will improve in the next 
version. (I think there even are some people with sh!=bash)


[2] Could this be about root privileges, what does 'ls -l $(which 
synclient)' tell you? You could try 'sudo ./midipoke -x 1 -a' as well.



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