From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 30 0:39:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cequrux.com (citadel.cdsec.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 386A737BA9E for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 00:39:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cequrux.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cequrux.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id JAA19134; Tue, 30 May 2000 09:38:12 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel.cequrux.com via recvmail id 19053; Tue May 30 09:37:16 2000 Message-ID: <39336FB6.E0E8ECD2@cequrux.com> Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 09:37:26 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Shevland Cc: Michel Talon , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Synaptics touchpad (was: Re: Problems compiling FreeBSD stable) References: <392E8BEB.39C4916C@cequrux.com> <392EE4E0.6729CB13@gorean.org> <392FF0CF.DCBA309F@cequrux.com> <3930231B.D04BC457@gorean.org> <39322BD8.95736788@cequrux.com> <20000529131706.A717@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <39325B87.B24A1901@cequrux.com> <39325DF2.46CFC07B@cequrux.com> <20000529143455.A926@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <39326617.24B206E@cequrux.com> <20000529154810.A281@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <39327D91.55BBEAF0@cequrux.com> <3932EC57.32C0F791@kpi.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe Shevland wrote: > > I've had similar problems with my Dell Inspiron 7500 (haywire mouse > events), but (and this is from memory because I cannot get network > support on the laptop) when you plug the external PS/2 mouse in the > touchpad is disabled. Not in my case - if I plug an external mouse in, *both* work. There is even a spec document at Synaptics about this - it is called `active PS/2 multiplexing' (or, as I call it, `active pain in the butt' ;-) ) -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Director, Research and Development WWW: http://www.cequrux.com CEQURUX Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065 Firewalls/VPN Specialists Fax: +27(21)424-3656 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message