From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 4 09:35:07 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B18F816A46B for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 09:35:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53ABF13C44C for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 09:35:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id u2so814241uge for ; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:35:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.178.11 with SMTP id a11mr6004781buf.1180948186315; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:09:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.3? ( [217.196.247.135]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id d24sm690101nfh.2007.06.04.02.09.45; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:09:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4663D6D8.5020808@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:09:44 +0100 From: Robin Becker User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Fraser References: <4662C2A1.3070702@jessikat.plus.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Synaptics trackpad problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:35:07 -0000 Paul Fraser wrote: > On 6/3/07, Robin Becker wrote: >> Any help appreciated > > Hi Robin, > > I know this isn't going to be much of a comfort - but I've had great > difficulty trying to get Xorg to work nicely with - surprise - the > Synaptics touchpad on my Acer notebook as well. I posted to the list > almost a week ago reporting that while Xorg worked brilliantly one day > - suddenly it stopped working. > > I did blow the installation away and started again (unrelated issue) > the other day and the touchpad is working much as it was before. I > don't have my specific Xorg config in front of me as the missus has > stolen the laptop today unfortunately, however I've flagged this > thread so I'll attach it and send it over to you tonight. > Thanks I appreciate it. With my machine I can get the 1280x800 mode using 915resolution hack and I do have a mouse if I drop the touchpad entirely (from loader.conf and xorg.conf) and use moused_enable="YES" in rc.conf. For whatever reason the synaptics stuff is a bit flaky on my machine as I have had a couple of forced reboots with hw.psm.synaptics_support=1. If all else fails I will try and do the new 7.2 Xorg build from scratch. -- Robin Becker