Date: 27 Sep 2002 10:38:48 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@geekpunk.net> Cc: Guido Van Hoecke <Guido@VanHoecke.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: i-Buddie 4: Synaptics touch pad FreeBSD support?] Message-ID: <1033088930.45258.12.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20020926181814.U59185-100000@taran.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu> References: <20020926181814.U59185-100000@taran.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu>
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On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 09:01, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > This is just a laptop with a touchpad. Chances are pretty good it's > supported out of the box by FreeBSD's moused and even better than if you > can't get sysmouse support that there's a driver in XFree86 for it. The > linux driver is completely irrelevant not to mention the fact that I > can't seem to download it in order to see what they thought was so > special about their trackpad it was worthy of its own driver. Most of > them just act like PS/2 mice. You can put them into a special mode which allows you to do more stuff with them (get absolute position and pressure information and the like). There is a driver for X which does this, but it doesn't work on FreeBSD because you can't tell our PSM driver to move asside (it insists on sanity checking packets). I got part way through hacking moused to grok my Synaptics touch pad, but I got stuck because once it's in absolute mode the psm driver doesn't like the packets it outputs and resets it :( IMHO moused should do most of the work that psm now does, but I don't have any patches yet :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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