From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 28 19:59:16 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 4D95216A4CE; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:59:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB69143D48; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:59:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7SJup68048821; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:56:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (robert@localhost)i7SJup6f048818; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:56:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:56:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: doug@polands.org In-Reply-To: <20040828195650.39945.qmail@web40704.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: 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 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 19:59:16 -0000 On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Doug Poland wrote: > > 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). No, that's probably a problem with your Dell notebook. I've had two Dells do it, and they do it under Windows as well. I was sure it was a FreeBSD psm bug for months and months, and spent days hacking on psm trying to figure out what was triggering it. Then one day I was sitting in a meeting at our offices in Santa Clara, and a whole room of people were typing on Dells, and about once a minute someone would go "Damn mouse". Then it clicked :-). I wouldn't rule out a recent FreeBSD change doing it, but given my experiences I'd think it more likely to be a hardware issue. it went away each time I replaced the motherboard, but came back a few months later, suggesting wear-and-tear. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research