From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 10 6:43:11 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 2611F37B401 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 06:43:10 -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 E2FDC43F85 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 06:43:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@fnug.net) Received: from fnug.net (unknown [192.168.0.3]) by disk.fnug.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11497449A; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:43:08 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3E47BA7B.6040104@fnug.net> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:43:07 +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: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Synaptics touchpad support References: <20030209220457.GA23187@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <3E477889.9060100@fnug.net> <20030210140155.GC61879@papagena.rockefeller.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030210140155.GC61879@papagena.rockefeller.edu> 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, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Paul A. Mayer said on Feb 10, 2003 at 11:01:45: > >>Hi Rahul, >> >>Well, it compiles on 5.0-Release-p1. The psm initialization gives some >>specs about the device and some of it's features. ... but I don't see >>any consequences of this in apps, like mozilla. And under gnome the >>pressure sensitivity of the touchpad (e.g., tap to click) is now gone. > > > Yes, this was noted back then. See > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=0+0+archive/2003/freebsd-hackers/20030112.freebsd-hackers > > >>I have no great understanding of how any of this should work. Can you >>give some pointers. (How do I get touch sensitivity back? How should >>it be configured into X? Where should I be able to see the effects of >>the patch?) > > > Well, without doing anything, you should be able to see some activity > from the "up" button: in my case, it worked by default as a middle > button, while the "down" button did nothing but showed up in xev, for > example. Basically, left=1, up=2 right=3 ,down=4. > > What I really wanted was for "up" to mean up, "down" to mean down, and > I was happy to emulate "middle" with simultaneous left-right as > before. The following does it for me: I run moused with the options > -m 5=4 -m 4=2 -a 0.5 > (the -a is because this driver scales the speed up a bit too much > for my liking). And in my XF86Config I have > Option "Emulate3Buttons" > Option "Buttons" "5" > I *don't* have the Option "ZAxisMapping "4 5" which the howto's > for wheel mice will tell you to insert -- seems it's there by default. > And if I insert it, curiously, it stops working... This was very helpful and works as you describe. Thank you very much! /Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message