Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 21:43:46 +0300 From: abi <abi@abinet.ru> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Synaptics Issues Message-ID: <24216593-f788-5280-7801-12bf5b2a6c05@abinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <393ee3b1-14c1-3a74-21c7-ef2557aa448c@nomadlogic.org> References: <393ee3b1-14c1-3a74-21c7-ef2557aa448c@nomadlogic.org>
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03.09.2017 19:49, Pete Wright пишет: > Hi there, > > I have a laptop from System76 that has a synaptics touchpad. I was > wondering how synaptics has been working on other platforms. I'm > running into issues with my touchpad which require me to either > restart or disable the device altogether. I'm running > CURRENT/drm-next - but suspect this may happen on other releases as well. > > symptoms: > > - boot system without enabling synaptics via loader.conf. moused > detects psm device, xorg picks up device and treats it as a sysmouse. > not advanced features work (palm detection for example) - but mouse > mostly works. periodically the mouse will start jumping randomly on > display and i'll have to disable the mouse device and/or restart > computer to regain full control. > > > - boot system enabling synaptics via loader.conf. xorg detects mouse > and loads the synaptics xorg driver. advanced features mostly work - > but after a short amount of time (several hours) mouse becomes much > more erratic than scenario above. a system restart is required to > regain control of mouse. > > > i've done a bunch of testing of passing synaptic Xorg params that I > got from a working ubuntu install, but that has not helped. i'm kind > of at a loss at this point though, is the issue with Xorg or with > FreeBSD's synaptics kernel implementation? any pointers for debugging > would be really appreciated! > > > -pete > Well, synaptics is not working for me at all (Dell XPS 13 Skylake). It loads, but produces a lot of spam in xorg log, mouse jumping randomly. It works as sysmouse. So, I think yes, Xorg or FreeBSD has something fishy with synaptics. Personally, I'm waiting for evdev or libinput support, so I disabled touchpad.
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