From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 29 5:12:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cequrux.com (citadel.cdsec.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B89C337BBE1 for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 05:12:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cequrux.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cequrux.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id OAA16987; Mon, 29 May 2000 14:10:12 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel.cequrux.com via recvmail id 16931; Mon May 29 14:09:17 2000 Message-ID: <39325DF2.46CFC07B@cequrux.com> Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 14:09:22 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michel Talon , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems compiling FreeBSD stable References: <392E33A1.E1241EB0@cequrux.com> <20000526092859.B8115@stat.Duke.EDU> <392E8BEB.39C4916C@cequrux.com> <392EE4E0.6729CB13@gorean.org> <392FF0CF.DCBA309F@cequrux.com> <3930231B.D04BC457@gorean.org> <39322BD8.95736788@cequrux.com> <20000529131706.A717@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <39325B87.B24A1901@cequrux.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Graham Wheeler wrote: > > Michel Talon wrote: > > > > > On the Dell Inspiron 3500 that i have, there is a Synaptrics touchpad. It > > works very correctly with psm (and then /dev/sysmouse under X), except > > the funny modes that one can activate in Windows (like dragging on the edges > > to scroll windows). In any case one can even left click by tapping > > the touchpad etc. It acts like a ps2 mouse. > > So does mine - until ((time()%random(300)==0), and then it goes Actually that should read (time()-X_start_time) > random(300) ;-) Put another way, its usually gone beserk within about a minute, and the longest that it has worked for me has been about five minutes. The problems usually seem to start after my finger reaches the edge of the pad for the nth time, where n is indeterminate but not that big. -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Director, Research and Development WWW: http://www.cequrux.com CEQURUX Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065 Firewalls/VPN Specialists Fax: +27(21)424-3656 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message