Touchpad support for X.org ?

Adam Conrad adconrad at ubuntu.com
Sun Jun 12 13:50:31 CDT 2005


Karl Hegbloom wrote:
>
> One more clue you could add to laptop-detect might be to check for a
> "Mobile" processor.  I bet you can simply grep for "Version: Mobile" and
> get that.

This isn't a terribly good idea, since you can get "mobile" versions of
various CPUs in desktop packaging, and they still claim to be mobile. 
I've had a couple of low power CPUs in the past that were repackaged
"mobile" silicon, and claimed to be so.

> There are "desktop replacement" laptops that are not using mobile CPU's
> or chipsets.

And this just makes things more confusing, of course.

... Adam






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