[PLEASE TEST] Better support for Synaptics Touchpads

Arne Schwabe arne at rfc2549.org
Fri Aug 6 09:21:53 PDT 2004


Philip Paeps <philip at freebsd.org> writes:

> Hi gang :-)
>
> Since the original synaptics support was added to psm, there have been some
> reports of malfunctions and missing magic.  I've tried to fix all that, but
> it's still work in progress.
>
> If you happen to own a laptop with a synaptics touchpad, please help test:
>
>   <http://people.freebsd.org/~philip/psm.diff>
>
> So far, I've had one report of a panic, possibly related to an extra gadget
> chained through the the touchpad.  If you're extra masochistic, and your
> laptop has one of these extra gadgets, you might like to remove the #if 0
> around line 2537 and the #endif around line 2568 of your sys/isa/psm.c.

Not using the stick would be masochistic in my opinion ;)

Anyway pressing  buttons of the touchpad and moving the stick gives
_strange_ effects but I think this time I motivate myself by not using
the synaptics XFree86 driver, so either I fix it or my mouse is broken
:)

Arne

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