Synaptics touchpad working now

[Bryan Venteicher]

----- Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova at fbsd.ru> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 16:38 -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> > I couldn't make this work before, in case anybody else has this
> > problem: In my Thinkpad R40 I have a touchpad that can use the middle
> > mouse button (used not to work in PSM mode) and where the right border
> > of the touchpad is a scroll control.
> > 
> > I use a Thinkpad R40, FreeBSD-6.3-stable/i386.
> > 
> > Here's what to do:
> > - install Xorg-7.3
> > - install usr/ports/x11-drivers/synaptics
> 
> Yes, it works for me for some time (several months)
> 
> But, sometimes, after boot mouse events does not get from touchpad to X.
> Or even worse, touchpad works some time and then stop working.
> 
> Anybody get same glitches ? (I have T60).
> 
> psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
> psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> psm0: [ITHREAD]
> psm0: model Synaptics Touchpad, device ID 0
> 
> when it failed, it writes something like:
> psm0: failed to reset the aux device.
> psm0: the aux device has gone! (reinitialize).
> 
> or does not write anything. Only way to reset it, I have found - reboot
> system

I get the same error on my T61 running current/amd64; seems to only happen when I boot from the battery.
 
> 
> > Martin
> -- 
> Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
> vova at fbsd.ru
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