6.0RC1 - enabling synaptics touchpad freezes machine

[Eric Schuele]

Tom.Lislegaard at proact.no wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Eric Schuele wrote:
> 
>> Tom.Lislegaard at proact.no wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I try to enable touchpad support on an Acer Travelmate 8104
>>> by setting hw.psm.synaptics_support="1" in loader.conf.
>>>
>>
>> I have a synaptics touchpad on a Dell Inspiron.  I've never used the 
>> above (and never had the problems you mention below)...
>>
>> I add
>>  hint.psm.0.flags="0x1000"
>> to my /boot/device.hints file to get it working.
>>
>> Might give it a try.  Presently running 6.0-STABLE as of this 
>> morning... but the above hint has been working since 5.x days.
>>
> 
> I should have expressed myself better. The touchpad works with no special
> settings, but only as a generic 2-button ps2 mouse. What I'm after is
> "more buttons" and that should (in theory) be accomplished with the
> synaptics_support setting.
> Eric, could you try to set this variable and see if it works with your
> hardware?

Sorry for not responding sooner.
What "more buttons" would I experience?  Presently I can use the left, 
the right, and both at the same time.  I don't mind setting it... but 
what should I do to see if the desired functionality exists?  Or are we 
just looking for it to hang my machine (or not)?

> 
> I'm no kernel hacker, but any advice on how to debug this would be
> appreciated.
> 
> -tom
> 
>> HTH
>>
>>> After that any access to psm0 seems to hang the machine solid.
>>> For instance running 'moused -p /dev/psm0' or starting Xorg with
>>> psm0 as mousedevice freezes the machine immediately, and I have
>>> to use the power button to recover.
>>>
>>> This is an out-of-the-box 6.0RC1 Generic kernel. The only
>>> other change I've done is to disable acpi, though that doesn't
>>> change anything regarding the touchpad problem.
>>>
>>> Is anyone else seeing something similar (and preferably have
>>> a solution)?
>>>
>>> Output of dmesg is found below.
>>>
>>> -tom
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> Eric
>>
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-- 
Regards,
Eric