Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 15:37:08 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new psm patch. Message-ID: <20040102203708.GA14445@online.fr> In-Reply-To: <16373.49080.401073.12711@canoe.dclg.ca>
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David Gilbert wrote: > I was applying the psm patch posted here recently. Not the one that > was for the Xserver, but the one that was for the moused operation. > It didn't apply cleanly. Included is a patch that applies to current > with the same effect. I would like to see discussion towards > including this in -CURRENT as touchpad support is a hot laptop topic. Good luck. Marcin posted this nearly a year ago, on -hackers; a month or so later, I send-pr'd the patch for the then-current -CURRENT, http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/48116 and reported it on the mailing list. A couple of users liked it, but there was absolutely no feedback from any developers -- neither "it's a good idea, let's merge it" nor "it's a good idea but not implemented right" nor "we don't want it". Apparently nobody particularly wants the scroll-buttons on their touchpads to work :( BTW, the above patch worked on my old laptop which had up and down scroll buttons, but not on my newer laptop which has a bar on the side for scrolling up and down. On this laptop, there are two issues: (1) the thing is detected as a Microsoft IntelliMouse, unless I fiddle psm.c to probe for the touchpad first (what is a better way to deal with this?) (2) if I do that, it is detected as a Synaptics touchpad, and the touchpad part of it works, but the scroll part doesn't -- it just behaves like a touchpad with left/right movement disabled, ie it just moves the mouse up and down. I need to investigate more closely, it could be I just need to set some moused parameters. Rahul
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