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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
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