From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 10 6:42: 8 2003 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 AA21337B401 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 06:42:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from disk.fnug.net (213.237.71.107.adsl.amb.worldonline.dk [213.237.71.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826E643F3F for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 06:42:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@fnug.net) Received: from fnug.net (unknown [192.168.0.3]) by disk.fnug.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1498449A; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:42:03 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3E47BA3B.6050300@fnug.net> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:42:03 +0100 From: "Paul A. Mayer" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030203 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, da MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Synaptics touchpad support References: <20030209220457.GA23187@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <3E477889.9060100@fnug.net> <3E4795FD.5B614232@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3E4795FD.5B614232@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Terry Lambert wrote: > "Paul A. Mayer" wrote: > > > You actually lose the tap/tap-tap click and doubleclick button > emulation with the new driver, and, as you note, the pressure > sensitivity. > > Both of these issues were noted when the driver was posted for > review. It semed the consensus at the time that until at least > the tap/tap-tap was brought back (via software emulation), the > driver would not be replaced, only optioned. You can check the > list archives for details, I think. I wasn't aware of the prehistory ... (Rahul's link in another post was very interesting.) > > The "pressure sensitivity is, I think, really an area sensitivity > and not a real pressure sensitivity (I can't imagine actually > losing an axis of data!). That would mean, like the tap/tap-tap, > it could be emulated in software. It would be interesting to get this back. I can (and have) lived without the "roller" buttons, but I wasn't aware of how used I had become to tapping instead of clicking. > > Probably the best thing to do would be to disassemble the BIOS on > your box, knowing the difference between the older driver's interface, > and use the same techniques that were hidden from the older driver > (and "just built in" instead). This is certainly beyond my technical understanding! /Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message