From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 3 23:37:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D9F416A4CE; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 23:37:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.cryptography.com (li-22.members.linode.com [64.5.53.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40C3843D5F; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 23:37:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: from [10.0.0.34] (adsl-67-127-84-57.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [67.127.84.57]) by www.cryptography.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i73Nbg2a012726; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:37:42 -0700 Message-ID: <411021C5.20402@root.org> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 16:37:41 -0700 From: Nate Lawson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: Nate Lawson cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: nork@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys mouse.h src/sys/isa psm.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 23:37:43 -0000 Robert Watson wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Nate Lawson wrote: >> Modified files: >> sys/sys mouse.h >> sys/isa psm.c >> Log: >> Add support for the Synaptics Touchpad mouse driver. I reworked the >> submitted version with style cleanups and changes to comments. I also >> modified the ioctl interface. This version only has one ioctl (to get >> the Synaptics-specific config parameters) since this is the only >> information a user might want. > > > I haven't yet attempted to track down whether it was this specific commit, > but sometime in the last few days, my notebook mousepad began behaving > very strangely. I'm seeing a few different symptoms: > > - The touchpad is much more sensitive than it was before, making it > difficult to point it accurately at window borders, etc. > > - When I hold down the mouse buttons to drag, that appears not to register > properly, so I can't resize windows easily. > > - Sometimes, the mouse cursor appears to stall and not move. It then > rights itself, but I'm not sure why. > > psm now reports as "model Synaptics Touchpad, device ID 0" which I don't > recall it doing previously. I don't have this hardware but perhaps nork@ can explain. -- Nate