Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 12:22:34 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Touchpad issues Message-ID: <CAHHBGkpUmmLrXi_4W25HU=eDXyDyqCZzPunqAqHZrQLR3gvLtg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140802223804.GA42137@home.parts-unknown.org> References: <20140802223804.GA42137@home.parts-unknown.org>
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On 2 August 2014 18:38, David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> 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 --
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