From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 16:22:36 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 621B270A for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 16:22:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-x22c.google.com (mail-wg0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::22c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F224E2420 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 16:22:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f44.google.com with SMTP id m15so4338297wgh.3 for ; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 09:22:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=jKH4n9S0NuRzngMy96Ytc8DxWKCvrCjLaSa4asqXw6s=; b=yQS66tlTvjGsWU6OIYGb3LzEi7MU2Fl6V+P68Us7WynDKy/iB+B1kNk/manlWqZ3MU skJgawR7qqW8U1AQgREuaJzGvvsg0ZV4drNTqjE+qT0sD5WsyaQYnWDn5G9aW1LV3eN5 +/ulJN9iZrgGxv/tzvU8EGFkCSmEZd8ER0qmhS4l2cj1NySuLnoVTGUUcIEbCfNutMoI okCnw9C5CxU7i5PX6fTUlUHJe2GiJleJL2rUXRrq0tuRM+CJsHaNDzChW0r3P59jFfjC dNkIFoA5APyNGw3Mg/SQ8UeW/MFNo2j2k9oAiKxA4ZKZQcDlJKY8OND5llogJJi36YQ1 523A== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.38.39 with SMTP id d7mr25083281wik.24.1407428554308; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 09:22:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.186.196 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 09:22:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140802223804.GA42137@home.parts-unknown.org> References: <20140802223804.GA42137@home.parts-unknown.org> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 12:22:34 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Touchpad issues From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: David Benfell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 16:22:36 -0000 On 2 August 2014 18:38, David Benfell wrote: > Hi all, > > This is on my Asus X202E. For me its touchpad (and every other > touchpad I have ever encountered) is hypersensitive. The cursor > moves erratically. It clicks when it wants to, which is often > not when *I* want it to. It seems to regard the area of the > buttons as area that should indicate cursor movement. When I > put a finger on the surface to try to move the cursor, it some- > times mistakes this for a click. I would prefer buttons to be > buttons and not anything else, and cursor movement surface to > be cursor movement surface and not anything else. > > I've posted my xorg.conf here: http://gw.gd/fVMO > > Notice the FingerHigh option on the Synaptics Touchpad section. > It is orders of magnitude higher than I have seen in any example > I've found on the net. Its behavior is somewhat improved but > *still* somewhat erratic. My hunch is that I should be tweaking > something else. > > I have also posted my Xorg.0.log here: http://gw.gd/S0Xt > > The touchpad is not, apparently, really a Synaptics. It also > complains about other things such as finger width settings that > I have no idea how to tweak. > > How should I be fixing this? > I strongly dislike xorg taking over the kernel r=C3=B4le of mediating hardware, so I don't have a HAL-ified xorg, & I have hw.psm.synaptics_support=3D1 in my /boot/loader.conf & I use the old, simple "Driver" "mouse" with /dev/sysmouse (Options "Protocol" "auto"). Letting moused(8) handle the plugging & unplugging of USB mousies works fine & everything I need does what I need. I'm not saying this is the best way to handle it, but it does give edge scrolling & such, & a bunch of tunables under hw.psm that I've never fiddled with. It's a bit touchy for my taste, but dropping your wrists while typing is a bad habit anyway. I also don't know how well moused(8) works with a HAL- ified xorg & hot-plugging USB mousies, I don't care to test it. --=20 --