From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 17 0: 9: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35C6D37B422 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 00:08:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4H7G4E00721; Thu, 17 May 2001 00:16:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200105170716.f4H7G4E00721@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Randy Bush Cc: FreeBSD Laptoppers Subject: Re: dell c600 oddities In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 May 2001 23:45:06 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 00:16:04 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >> o while typing into emacs, the cursor will jump to where the mouse is, > >> although i have not touched the mouse pad, the nipple, ... this is > >> VERY annoying > > You're hitting it with your thumbs or the side of your fingers. > > nope. i have had someone watch my hands while it happened. repeatedly. Then it's either dust/dirt on the touchpad, or you've managed to find a resonant frequency. When this started happening to me, I was so pissed off that I added debugging output to the ps/2 driver - the touchpad is definitely generating click events. We don't, unfortunately, have any sort of control app for the Synaptics pad. You might want to go look and see if the Linux folks do; it'd be a relatively simple thing to port, and I think that one of the tunable parameters is touch sensitivity. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message