From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 26 18: 8:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EB8837B401 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 18:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACB2843E86 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 18:08:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8R18n2l094804; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:38:50 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: [Fwd: i-Buddie 4: Synaptics touch pad FreeBSD support?] From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: Guido Van Hoecke , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020926181814.U59185-100000@taran.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu> References: <20020926181814.U59185-100000@taran.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 27 Sep 2002 10:38:48 +0930 Message-Id: <1033088930.45258.12.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Score: -3.4 () IN_REP_TO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 09:01, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > This is just a laptop with a touchpad. Chances are pretty good it's > supported out of the box by FreeBSD's moused and even better than if you > can't get sysmouse support that there's a driver in XFree86 for it. The > linux driver is completely irrelevant not to mention the fact that I > can't seem to download it in order to see what they thought was so > special about their trackpad it was worthy of its own driver. Most of > them just act like PS/2 mice. You can put them into a special mode which allows you to do more stuff with them (get absolute position and pressure information and the like). There is a driver for X which does this, but it doesn't work on FreeBSD because you can't tell our PSM driver to move asside (it insists on sanity checking packets). I got part way through hacking moused to grok my Synaptics touch pad, but I got stuck because once it's in absolute mode the psm driver doesn't like the packets it outputs and resets it :( IMHO moused should do most of the work that psm now does, but I don't have any patches yet :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message