Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:29:12 +0000 From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> To: Tom.Lislegaard@proact.no Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0RC1 - enabling synaptics touchpad freezes machine Message-ID: <4370B638.1000909@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <20051031154521.G3650@tom.internal.proact.no> References: <20051031154521.G3650@tom.internal.proact.no>
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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
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