From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 5 12:38:28 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 A334916A4D0 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:38:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from coruscant.rfc1149.org (coruscant.rfc1149.org [217.160.130.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B43143D5D for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:38:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from arne@rfc2549.org) Received: by coruscant.rfc1149.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 518183F41; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 14:38:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kamino.rfc1149.org (kamino.cs.upb.de [131.234.20.130]) by coruscant.rfc1149.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87BEB3E9C for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 14:38:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: by kamino.rfc1149.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4D77A4088; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 14:38:21 +0200 (CEST) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20040805085807.GD595@loge.nixsys.be> (Philip Paeps's message of "Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:58:07 +0200") References: <20040805071236.GA595@loge.nixsys.be> <20040805085807.GD595@loge.nixsys.be> From: Arne Schwabe Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 14:38:21 +0200 Message-ID: <86vffx69qa.fsf@kamino.rfc1149.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on coruscant.rfc1149.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: Subject: Re: [PLEASE TEST] Better support for Synaptics Touchpads 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: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 12:38:28 -0000 Philip Paeps writes: > On 2004-08-05 10:34:28 (+0200), Arne Schwabe wrote: >> Philip Paeps writes: >> > If you happen to own a laptop with a synaptics touchpad, please help test: >> > >> > >> >> + * XXX: This is largely guesswork. The documentation from >> + * Synaptics doesn't mention guest devices, but it appears >> + * that packets from a stick are simple ps/2 packets... >> >> They are ps/2 packets but if you are crazy you can send the guest ps/2 >> device some ps/2 commands to put it into a special mode where can get >> features like pressure but well I don't know if that is really needed. ;) > > It might be fun to do :-) Given enough physical and virtual buttons, we > should be able to emulate a full-scale piano over ps/2. *grin* > > Do you know of any documentation more recent than the ACF126.pdf from the > Synaptics site? Guessing is a bit tedious... Well the programmers of the XFree86 Driver did do that guesswork or had better documentation. Arne -- compiling millions of tiny c-programs...done checking for a working configure script... not found