From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Aug 7 0:29:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E62C37B400 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 00:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C4EA43E7B for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 00:29:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (localhost.marcuscom.com [127.0.0.1]) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g777TrVY037646; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 03:29:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g777Trfb037643; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 03:29:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 03:29:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: How Can ThisBe Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8100 synaptics touch pad help In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020807032935.D36578-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, How Can ThisBe wrote: > What is really strange is we let the computer sit for a bit while we > researched heaps of XF86Config's. Pulled out all the USB things we had > tired. We then enabled the mouse at the console only first. dmesg | grep > mouse was showing /dev/psm0 so we did moused -p /dev/psm0 and the mouse > worked :] > > XFree86 -configure > Made a new config but still said mouse not found, so we edited the config to > this: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "auto" > Option "Device" "/dev/psm0" > EndSection > > Then ran the new config, complained about the mouse already being used, so > killall moused and ran it again. When using moused, you have to set your mouse device to /dev/sysmouse. Joe > > And that was it! All is working good again. Besides enabling the mouse at > the console first, we did everything else before, that is what I do not > understand. I'm just happy its working now. > > Thanks > > >From: Joe Marcus Clarke > >Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8100 synaptics touch pad help > > > >On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 14:44, How Can ThisBe wrote: > > > > > > I'm having huge problems trying to get the touch pad on a Dell Inspiron > >8100 > > > (with an ATi Radeon 7500 video chip) to work. This is both with and > >without > > > XFree86-4. I have also tried to use a USB mouse without luck. We have > >even > > > tried with a Wacom tablet! :] > > > >Checkout my example XF86Config file for my 8100 at > >http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/XF86Config. Ignore the video card > >section as I have the G2G card. Also, this assumes you're running > >moused out of rc.conf with the -3 flag. > > > >Joe > > > > > > > > This on a FreeBSD 4.6-Release system > > > > > > Any pointers would be much appreciated > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message