[PLEASE TEST] Better support for Synaptics Touchpads

Daniel Eischen deischen at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 30 18:12:31 PDT 2004


On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Jon Drews wrote:

> OK:
>
>  I put this in device.hints and my mouse works in X but not at the
> xterm. FreeBSD 5.3 B2 no longer locks up when configuring the mouse
> with sysinstall.
>
> hint.psm.0.flags="0x200"
>
>
> On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:39:06 -0400 (EDT), Robert Watson
> <rwatson at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 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).

Can we get the synaptics support disabled by default for the release
please?  It seems to affect every laptop I have access to (2 Dells
and an IBM).

-- 
Dan Eischen



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