Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 16:37:41 -0700 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys mouse.h src/sys/isa psm.c Message-ID: <411021C5.20402@root.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040803190259.93198B-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040803190259.93198B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Nate Lawson wrote: >> Modified files: >> sys/sys mouse.h >> sys/isa psm.c >> Log: >> Add support for the Synaptics Touchpad mouse driver. I reworked the >> submitted version with style cleanups and changes to comments. I also >> modified the ioctl interface. This version only has one ioctl (to get >> the Synaptics-specific config parameters) since this is the only >> information a user might want. > > > I haven't yet attempted to track down whether it was this specific commit, > but sometime in the last few days, my notebook mousepad began behaving > very strangely. I'm seeing a few different symptoms: > > - The touchpad is much more sensitive than it was before, making it > difficult to point it accurately at window borders, etc. > > - When I hold down the mouse buttons to drag, that appears not to register > properly, so I can't resize windows easily. > > - Sometimes, the mouse cursor appears to stall and not move. It then > rights itself, but I'm not sure why. > > psm now reports as "model Synaptics Touchpad, device ID 0" which I don't > recall it doing previously. I don't have this hardware but perhaps nork@ can explain. -- Nate
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