From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 2 12:40:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56AE016A4CE for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 12:40:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from papagena.rockefeller.edu (papagena.rockefeller.edu [129.85.41.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E0EF43D39 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 12:40:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@papagena.rockefeller.edu) Received: from papagena.rockefeller.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) i02Kb8Vj014457; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 15:37:08 -0500 Received: (from rsidd@localhost) by papagena.rockefeller.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i02Kb8cv014455; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 15:37:08 -0500 Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 15:37:08 -0500 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: David Gilbert Message-ID: <20040102203708.GA14445@online.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16373.49080.401073.12711@canoe.dclg.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.20-20.9smp i686 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new psm patch. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:40:19 -0000 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