Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:20:23 +0200 From: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: synaptics touchpad Message-ID: <86ekkutrzs.fsf@kamino.rfc1149.org> In-Reply-To: <4150BD6D.40108@math.missouri.edu> (Stephen Montgomery-Smith's message of "Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:46:53 -0500") References: <4150BD6D.40108@math.missouri.edu>
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Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> writes: > 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? > You have also the possibility of using the Xfree Driver. A few minutes ago I just posted a little hlep on -mobile. Arne -- compiling millions of tiny c-programs...done checking for a working configure script... not found
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