Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 09:49:40 -0700 From: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> To: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Synaptics Issues Message-ID: <393ee3b1-14c1-3a74-21c7-ef2557aa448c@nomadlogic.org>
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Hi there, I have a laptop from System76 that has a synaptics touchpad. I was wondering how synaptics has been working on other platforms. I'm running into issues with my touchpad which require me to either restart or disable the device altogether. I'm running CURRENT/drm-next - but suspect this may happen on other releases as well. symptoms: - boot system without enabling synaptics via loader.conf. moused detects psm device, xorg picks up device and treats it as a sysmouse. not advanced features work (palm detection for example) - but mouse mostly works. periodically the mouse will start jumping randomly on display and i'll have to disable the mouse device and/or restart computer to regain full control. - boot system enabling synaptics via loader.conf. xorg detects mouse and loads the synaptics xorg driver. advanced features mostly work - but after a short amount of time (several hours) mouse becomes much more erratic than scenario above. a system restart is required to regain control of mouse. i've done a bunch of testing of passing synaptic Xorg params that I got from a working ubuntu install, but that has not helped. i'm kind of at a loss at this point though, is the issue with Xorg or with FreeBSD's synaptics kernel implementation? any pointers for debugging would be really appreciated! -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA
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