From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 21 16:05:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2461916A52A for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 16:05:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@altadena.net) Received: from gooney.altadena.net (gooney.altadena.net [207.215.170.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F14D43D5E for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 16:05:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pete@altadena.net) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=2.gooney; d=altadena.net; b=Oot0JZ30sIzuLaZ0p7GKvpHEpOFum0bDx3B26SDgBF6DB5vZRU41TcY8r9Rt0VQMNTUnEVgHryZbq3xYheIH/ph5ukvL/buV/05ETajhd4l5e6rgU5Og+Y/wRsq16WgWN847/MrdgOW9qCAZIugXbTC8ALj2Xdww4g9tvryE9TI=; Received: from east.altadena.net ([72.1.156.142] helo=[192.168.170.196]) by gooney.altadena.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.54) id 1FhqQJ-0003dH-5m; Sun, 21 May 2006 09:04:55 -0700 Message-ID: <44708FA0.9060204@altadena.net> Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 12:04:48 -0400 From: Peter Carah Organization: Altadena Internet Communications User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060413) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jordan Sissel , current@freebsd.org References: <20060507080835.A58C615BD@fury.csh.rit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060507080835.A58C615BD@fury.csh.rit.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: [patch] new moused and psm patchset X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 16:05:25 -0000 Jordan Sissel wrote: > I need some folks to test and criticize my work thus far for a > replacement mouse input system. > I fixed this to apply to 6-stable with only a little trouble (I have a laptop with synaptics pad that is unpleasant to use with the current driver...) Once I figured out that I needed TWO modules (synaptics and sysmouse) in moused, and modified /etc/rc.d/moused to not use incompatible args - the other guy's reply about ignoring -p and such DO matter :-) things worked pretty well. Thunderbird will not extend a selection and PAN has trouble with scroll bars in very full newsgroups. I can try to get a 6.x version of the patchset; AFAIK the main work that remains all goes into moused... style(9), Giant aren't my department (yet). My kernel-fu is weak too :-( (though I have to do some kernel tweaks for linux at work in the next week or so; it may get better.) I can use the uhid driver too (laptop doesn't have an external ps2 connector). The alps pad is very common. Fortunately most pads should at least work with generic. > ou will have a new moused(8) with magic and fairy dust... or something. > For information on how to use the new mouse daemon, see the project > page. > > There are many issues still needing to be resolved, but I've been using > this code base on my new and ancient laptops for several months now. > > psm todo list: > - remove Giant requirement > - ensure it's properly written, my kernel code-fu is weak. > > moused todo list: > - write uhid driver > - port up mouse support from the "old mouse" system, as demanded? > >