Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:39:20 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: philip@freebsd.org Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [PLEASE TEST] Better support for Synaptics Touchpads Message-ID: <20040829083920.GA48813@abigail.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <20040828200633.GA16742@abigail.blackend.org> References: <20040828184118.GA16378@abigail.blackend.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040828153742.44614V-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20040828200633.GA16742@abigail.blackend.org>
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On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 10:06:33PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 03:39:06PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > > > > I updated my -CURRENT (from 16/08) laptop to today's -CURRENT, and I see > > > a lot of difference with my touchpad. Well, it's really not useable, > > > the touchpad is less accurate, the double tap & hold is not working > > > anymore etc. To sum up, if I want to use X with my laptop, I have to > > > plug in a mouse. > > > > > > So I'd like to back to previous behavior, I tried various psm flags to > > > make my touchpad seen as a vanilla PS/2 mouse, but nothing works. Is > > > there a way to switch back? > > > > I'm using this entry in /boot/device.hints: > > > > hint.psm.0.flags="0x200" > > > [...] > > hmm I used 0x0200, which not worked, I will try with 0x200. > :((( 0x200 gives the same result as 0x0200. You only added this hint, nothing more? The only solution I found was to plug-in a PS/2 mouse to have a "working" touchpad. For information I use a DELL Inspiron 4150. Hmm I have a doubt, are these "changes" in RELENG_5? I did not checked, but I wish/hope RELENG_5 is "sypnaptic safe". Marc
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