Re: [PLEASE TEST] Better support for Synaptics Touchpads

From: Doug Poland <wisco_disco_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:56:50 -0700 (PDT)
Robert Watson <rwatson_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> 
> > I updated my -CURRENT (from 16/08) laptop to today's -CURRENT, and
I
> > see a lot of difference with my touchpad.  Well, it's really not
> > useable, the touchpad is less accurate, the double tap & hold is
not
> > working anymore etc.  To sum up, if I want to use X with my laptop,
> > I have to plug in a mouse. 
> > 
> > So I'd like to back to previous behavior, I tried various psm flags
> > to make my touchpad seen as a vanilla PS/2 mouse, but nothing
works.
> > Is there a way to switch back? 
> 
> I'm using this entry in /boot/device.hints:
> 
>   hint.psm.0.flags="0x200"
> 
> Which appears to tell the psm driver to ignore all that and be boring
> with respect to synaptics features (i.e., work).
> 
Would this have anything to do with the mouse on a Dell laptop moving
all by itself?  When I boot with ACPI enabled on 5.2.1-R or 5.3Beta the
mouse will simply go wild, moving all over the screen at will.  This
happens at the console and in X (both XFree86 and XOrg).  

-- 
Regards,
Doug


		
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