Glidepoint + Scrolling

Paul B. Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Fri Jul 3 19:02:21 UTC 2009


On 7/3/09, Christoph Brunner <ch.brunner at web.de> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 09:08 -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 15:26 +0200, Christoph Brunner wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> i posted this some time ago already on freebsd-mobile, but got no
>>>> answer. Maybe it was the wrong list, so i will try it here.
>>>>
>>>> On a Dell Precision M2300 laptop i am trying FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT i386.
>>>> It runs so long but i cannot get the touchpad to provide scrolling
>>>> (in X).
>>>>
>>>> The touchpad identifies as GlidePoint.
>>>>
>>>> # dmesg | grep psm
>>>> psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
>>>> psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>>>> psm0: [ITHREAD]
>>>> psm0: model GlidePoint, device ID 0
>>>>
>>>> Setting VertEdgeScroll, VertScrollDelta, *Edge options in xorg.conf
>>>> i didn't have success.
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody have a working setup with Glidepoint and scrolling? How do
>>>> i get this to work?
>>> There has been some discussion of this on the Xorg lists with regard to
>>> Glidepoint.  I'm not sure what the outcome was though.  I'm reasonably
>>> confident that this is not a FreeBSD specific issue though.  I'll try
>>> and check the latest status of the synaptics driver.
>>
>> It looks like this may be handled in git.  Please see:
>>
>>     X.Org Bug 21214
>> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21214
>
> It looks like this patch is already included in the current
> xf86-input-synaptics-1.1.2 (installed from port), isn't it?
>
>
> In /var/log/Xorg.0.log i found:
>
> (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 1.1.2
> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/psm0"
> Query no Synaptics: 000000
> (--) Mouse0: no supported touchpad found
> (EE) Mouse0 Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse0"
> (II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"

Your xorg.conf please.
Do you have hint.psm.synaptics_support=1 ?

-- 
Paul


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