Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 20:47:55 -0700 From: David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Touchpad issues Message-ID: <20140808034755.GA98543@home.parts-unknown.org> In-Reply-To: <CAHHBGkpUmmLrXi_4W25HU=eDXyDyqCZzPunqAqHZrQLR3gvLtg@mail.gmail.com> References: <20140802223804.GA42137@home.parts-unknown.org> <CAHHBGkpUmmLrXi_4W25HU=eDXyDyqCZzPunqAqHZrQLR3gvLtg@mail.gmail.com>
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--X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 12:22:34PM -0400, illoai@gmail.com wrote: >=20 > I strongly dislike xorg taking over the kernel r=F4le of > mediating hardware, so I don't have a HAL-ified xorg, > & I have > hw.psm.synaptics_support=3D1 > in my /boot/loader.conf > & I use the old, simple "Driver" "mouse" with /dev/sysmouse > (Options "Protocol" "auto"). Letting moused(8) > handle the plugging & unplugging of USB mousies > works fine & everything I need does what I need. >=20 > I'm not saying this is the best way to handle it, but it > does give edge scrolling & such, & a bunch of tunables > under hw.psm that I've never fiddled with. It's a bit > touchy for my taste, but dropping your wrists while > typing is a bad habit anyway. >=20 > I also don't know how well moused(8) works with a HAL- > ified xorg & hot-plugging USB mousies, I don't care to > test it. >=20 Do you allow hald to run at all? If so, how do you tell it to ignore the mouse? If not, am I overestimating the difficulty of dealing with hot-plugged USB devices? When I am on the road, I will sometimes plug a trackball mouse into the thing. It's *much* easier to deal with than the touchpad and it's USB. As for sensitivity, that's my problem. If my wrists are within six inches of that touchpad, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, it's liable to move the cursor and sense a click. Text winds up getting typed in completely the wrong places--which is a real problem when you're a Ph.D. student writing 20-plus page tomes. To maybe--only maybe--limit this, I would have to type with my hands held vertically, which is unlikely to be healthier or preferable technique to letting your wrists drop. ;-) thanks! --=20 David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJT5EhrAAoJEBV64x4SNmAr/6gP/0iwQasTHkTbHS+t5LovUugi xmr8EhTFIzcpFjpBFXAh7MGdViv7W+KHkUf0IVehlSMYl8D6P2SJXamufMbBDYKm 4Bdegn4/lZafNqW1Pe+y24L/Yc3/0VG/QNaadZLsDzk7ereZtEvrUSxP78shy2Sh m9ip0nyYbKX3scYwWsb+t1yAiWw7YvoUGKr1h2jYd+v5DSyLxn6N7pGJQoUhZ74O pPpn2+sAG+OLTkSDxq/BbWvxSUCZ3YCXv66OOQtv6U0YEnZ01c/bdexDlFr9QYv/ j1wEVCvyV3qYHTN90Md24G+r/3alsOS6/FwI+XBZG49oSc2lu2uZLGzgXvRpgT8g Ejbitr4BjWV3l6t1cxTZUcb1ruFSa6EFbaY9xOjjapzPqYStRnPqRjqqinwV+Wpw dm/o5ZDK0m/2vS6in8y5bAFkQm3AVgw4LCJ3OvaqM/20g+/2n7Vn0byiaBjHyPF6 hxhGmrHGF8W6hlL2sBEJ85bykkeAkJHFtuxCUth5DsQnGwWCFekLk3WCPC2k+5eh Tcv+VoWX4VSr/+6j2AJQVT/ND8jkopouSSARFjRNFn2d9c+OfspbS9D9la5eopkt wzeXgeBp/To9LgdB7HOTCNnq35sitnjI+bQEmSilkXfP6LIbsTvKEV8JTDSsyeVz pSCEnpzj29GjfXpbVth/ =ftAt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT--
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