From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 3 10:36:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E70F237B422 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 10:36:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000903173611.HGVG25970.femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 10:36:11 -0700 Message-ID: <39B229C7.9AA0DA37@home.com> Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 10:36:55 +0000 From: rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Galt Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Synaptics touchpad config program\ Python hacking References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I get confused with Linux. On this machine it is /dev/psm0. I have to kill moused to be able to access it. Rob. John Galt wrote: > > FYI, some synaptics devices (like mine) are on cuaaX (serial)... > > On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, rob wrote: > > > First I need to see if I can communicate with /dev/psaux via the Python > > console. I need to start brewing some coffee to build up the > > initiative. So once I start hacking on this, I assume I'm in the > > jurisdiction of some other mailing list. What would be appropriate? > > Rob. > > > > > > > > > > John Galt wrote: > > > > > > THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!!!!! Can I assist in the test? > > > > > > On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, rob wrote: > > > > > > > Someone asked a week or so ago about the Synaptics touch pad 'driver'. > > > > I have the Linux source here. It is not really a driver, but a config > > > > utility which sets up the pad so that the extra functions work. So it > > > > looks pretty simple so I've decided I will try to port it. > > > > Unfortunately it uses the deprecated 'ftime' function, and also > > > > 'getopt_long' which doesn't seem to work even though getopt.h on my > > > > system seems to include this. > > > > > > > > I'm more of a Python programmer. Maybe I can write Python config > > > > program. Rob. > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > When you are having a bad day, and it seems like everybody is trying to > > > tick you off, remember that it takes 42 muscles to produce a frown, but > > > only 4 muscles to work the trigger of a good sniper rifle. > > > > > > Who is John galt? Galt@inconnu.isu.edu, that's who! > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -- > When you are having a bad day, and it seems like everybody is trying to > tick you off, remember that it takes 42 muscles to produce a frown, but > only 4 muscles to work the trigger of a good sniper rifle. > > Who is John galt? Galt@inconnu.isu.edu, that's who! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message