From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 28 19:56:50 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 A60E616A4CE for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:56:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web40704.mail.yahoo.com (web40704.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7283343D49 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:56:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wisco_disco@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040828195650.39945.qmail@web40704.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.208.53.189] by web40704.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:56:50 PDT Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:56:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Poland To: Robert Watson , Marc Fonvieille In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PLEASE TEST] Better support for Synaptics Touchpads X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: doug@polands.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:56:50 -0000 Robert Watson wrote: > On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > > I updated my -CURRENT (from 16/08) laptop to today's -CURRENT, and I > > see a lot of difference with my touchpad. Well, it's really not > > useable, the touchpad is less accurate, the double tap & hold is not > > working anymore etc. To sum up, if I want to use X with my laptop, > > I have to plug in a mouse. > > > > So I'd like to back to previous behavior, I tried various psm flags > > to make my touchpad seen as a vanilla PS/2 mouse, but nothing works. > > Is there a way to switch back? > > I'm using this entry in /boot/device.hints: > > hint.psm.0.flags="0x200" > > Which appears to tell the psm driver to ignore all that and be boring > with respect to synaptics features (i.e., work). > Would this have anything to do with the mouse on a Dell laptop moving all by itself? When I boot with ACPI enabled on 5.2.1-R or 5.3Beta the mouse will simply go wild, moving all over the screen at will. This happens at the console and in X (both XFree86 and XOrg). -- Regards, Doug __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail