Glidepoint + Scrolling

Robert Noland rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 2 14:08:21 UTC 2009


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.

robert.

> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Best regards,
> Chris
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
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