From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 8 20:29:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7704016A41F for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 20:29:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [216.148.227.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 424E843D48 for ; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 20:29:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from [208.206.151.59] (host59.gtisd.com[208.206.151.59]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2005110820291501300nd5t9e>; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 20:29:16 +0000 Message-ID: <4370B638.1000909@computer.org> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:29:12 +0000 From: Eric Schuele User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051107) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom.Lislegaard@proact.no References: <20051031154521.G3650@tom.internal.proact.no> In-Reply-To: <20051031154521.G3650@tom.internal.proact.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0RC1 - enabling synaptics touchpad freezes machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 20:29:17 -0000 Tom.Lislegaard@proact.no wrote: > > I try to enable touchpad support on an Acer Travelmate 8104 > by setting hw.psm.synaptics_support="1" in loader.conf. > I have a synaptics touchpad on a Dell Inspiron. I've never used the above (and never had the problems you mention below)... I add hint.psm.0.flags="0x1000" to my /boot/device.hints file to get it working. Might give it a try. Presently running 6.0-STABLE as of this morning... but the above hint has been working since 5.x days. HTH > After that any access to psm0 seems to hang the machine solid. > For instance running 'moused -p /dev/psm0' or starting Xorg with > psm0 as mousedevice freezes the machine immediately, and I have > to use the power button to recover. > > This is an out-of-the-box 6.0RC1 Generic kernel. The only > other change I've done is to disable acpi, though that doesn't > change anything regarding the touchpad problem. > > Is anyone else seeing something similar (and preferably have > a solution)? > > Output of dmesg is found below. > > -tom > -- Regards, Eric