Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:56:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Poland <wisco_disco@yahoo.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PLEASE TEST] Better support for Synaptics Touchpads Message-ID: <20040828195650.39945.qmail@web40704.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040828153742.44614V-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> 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
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