From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 12:20:50 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 4712F16A4CE for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:20:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from coruscant.rfc1149.org (coruscant.rfc1149.org [217.160.130.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE4BB43D1D for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:20:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from arne@rfc2549.org) Received: by coruscant.rfc1149.org (Postfix, from userid 110) id 1AA013EFA; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:20:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kamino.rfc1149.org (dsl-213-023-207-181.arcor-ip.net [213.23.207.181]) by coruscant.rfc1149.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C594A3D2E; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:20:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by kamino.rfc1149.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CE52F40F1; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:20:23 +0200 (CEST) To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith 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> From: Arne Schwabe Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:20:23 +0200 Message-ID: <86ekkutrzs.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=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: synaptics touchpad 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: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:20:50 -0000 Stephen Montgomery-Smith 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