[PLEASE TEST] Better support for Synaptics Touchpads

Marc Fonvieille blackend at freebsd.org
Sat Aug 28 13:06:38 PDT 2004


On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 03:39:06PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> 
> > I updated my -CURRENT (from 16/08) laptop to today's -CURRENT, and I see
> > a lot of difference with my touchpad.  Well, it's really not useable,
> > the touchpad is less accurate, the double tap & hold is not working
> > anymore etc.  To sum up, if I want to use X with my laptop, I have to
> > plug in a mouse. 
> > 
> > So I'd like to back to previous behavior, I tried various psm flags to
> > make my touchpad seen as a vanilla PS/2 mouse, but nothing works.  Is
> > there a way to switch back? 
> 
> I'm using this entry in /boot/device.hints:
> 
>   hint.psm.0.flags="0x200"
>
[...]

hmm I used 0x0200, which not worked, I will try with 0x200.

Marc


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