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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:04:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Doug Burks <dbx@atmos.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tapping on a mousepad -- 2.2.5 vs 2.2.7
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809171403550.2759-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.FSD.3.96.980916142923.6042A-100000@hello.atmos.washington.edu>

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On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Doug Burks wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I am running currently running FreeBSD 2.2.5 on our laptops at work and
> am in the midst of upgrading them to 2.2.7.  However, I have run into
> one gotcha.  The laptops have a touchpad, and under 2.2.5, I can quickly
> tap it and have that interpreted as a left mouse button under the XIG
> Neomagic X server.  Under 2.2.7, I can not tap, whether I use the XIG X
> server or a freshly constructed XFree86 server using the unaccelerated
> Neomagic patches picked off the Web.  The touchpad works perfectly as a
> mouse in all other situations.

I always thought that the tap-clicking (i've seen it called 'doable
touch') is a hardware setting.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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