From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 29 15: 8:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.kpi.com.au (www.kpi.com.au [203.39.132.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F4EE37BF37 for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 15:08:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shevlandj@kpi.com.au) Received: from kpi.com.au (ws06.kpi.com.au [203.39.132.219]) by www.kpi.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA42138; Tue, 30 May 2000 08:08:09 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from shevlandj@kpi.com.au) Message-ID: <3932EC57.32C0F791@kpi.com.au> Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 08:16:55 +1000 From: Joe Shevland Organization: KPI Logistics Pty Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Graham Wheeler Cc: Michel Talon , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Synaptics touchpad (was: Re: Problems compiling FreeBSD stable) References: <392E8BEB.39C4916C@cequrux.com> <392EE4E0.6729CB13@gorean.org> <392FF0CF.DCBA309F@cequrux.com> <3930231B.D04BC457@gorean.org> <39322BD8.95736788@cequrux.com> <20000529131706.A717@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <39325B87.B24A1901@cequrux.com> <39325DF2.46CFC07B@cequrux.com> <20000529143455.A926@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <39326617.24B206E@cequrux.com> <20000529154810.A281@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <39327D91.55BBEAF0@cequrux.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Graham Wheeler wrote: > > Michel Talon wrote: > > [snip] > I don't have the problem if I use an external ps2 mouse. However, that > isn't really a solution either, as my palm or fingers can brush the > touchpad and still cause the bad behaviour to occur. If I could turn off > the touchpad and just use the external mouse, that would be one solution > (although far from ideal). I've had similar problems with my Dell Inspiron 7500 (haywire mouse events), but (and this is from memory because I cannot get network support on the laptop) when you plug the external PS/2 mouse in the touchpad is disabled. Joe > > -- > Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com > Director, Research and Development WWW: http://www.cequrux.com > CEQURUX Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065 > Firewalls/VPN Specialists Fax: +27(21)424-3656 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message