cvs commit: src/sys/sys mouse.h src/sys/isa psm.c

[Robert Watson]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Robert Watson wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/sys              mouse.h 
> >     sys/isa              psm.c 
> >   Log:
> >   Add support for the Synaptics Touchpad mouse driver.  I reworked the
> >   submitted version with style cleanups and changes to comments.  I also
> >   modified the ioctl interface.  This version only has one ioctl (to get
> >   the Synaptics-specific config parameters) since this is the only
> >   information a user might want.
> 
> I haven't yet attempted to track down whether it was this specific
> commit, but sometime in the last few days, my notebook mousepad began
> behaving very strangely.  I'm seeing a few different symptoms: 

Just to follow up on this: when I locally back out the latest psm.c
revision, the problems appear to go away.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research


> 
> - The touchpad is much more sensitive than it was before, making it
>   difficult to point it accurately at window borders, etc.
> 
> - When I hold down the mouse buttons to drag, that appears not to register
>   properly, so I can't resize windows easily.
> 
> - Sometimes, the mouse cursor appears to stall and not move.  It then
>   rights itself, but I'm not sure why.
> 
> psm now reports as "model Synaptics Touchpad, device ID 0" which I don't
> recall it doing previously.
> 
> Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
> robert at fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research
> 
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