From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 23:46:54 2004 Return-Path: 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 E170616A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:46:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92.asp.att.net [204.127.203.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92DEB43D2D for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:46:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from [10.0.0.3] (12-216-240-169.client.mchsi.com[12.216.240.169]) by sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92) with ESMTP id <20040921234654m9200ga2gse>; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:46:54 +0000 Message-ID: <4150BD6D.40108@math.missouri.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:46:53 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040918 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: synaptics touchpad X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:46:55 -0000 I just installed FreeBSD 5.3-Beta5 on my Dell Inspiron 7500, which has a synaptics touchpad. I am finding the touchpad to be somewhat unresponsive, particularly under XFree86-4.3. (I would use Xorg, but neither Xorg or XFree86-4.4 work with my video card.) In the end I went into the source code sys/isa/psm.c, and simply commented out the synaptics code, so that FreeBSD thinks that it is a generic mouse. Now it works very much better. Why would the synaptics code be so unresponsive? Do I need to use Xorg, or is it some other issue? Stephen