Synaptics Issues

[Grzegorz Junka]

I am running standard FreeBSD 11 and a synaptic touchpad on my laptop 
works just fine. I didn't have to configure anything. It worked out of 
the box. So probably can't help you much with what would need to be 
configured but would be happy to run some debug commands if you know of any.

GrzegorzJ


On 03/09/2017 18:43, abi wrote:
>
> 03.09.2017 19:49, Pete Wright пишет:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have a laptop from System76 that has a synaptics touchpad.  I was 
>> wondering how synaptics has been working on other platforms. I'm 
>> running into issues with my touchpad which require me to either 
>> restart or disable the device altogether.  I'm running 
>> CURRENT/drm-next - but suspect this may happen on other releases as 
>> well.
>>
>> symptoms:
>>
>> - boot system without enabling synaptics via loader.conf. moused 
>> detects psm device, xorg picks up device and treats it as a 
>> sysmouse.  not advanced features work (palm detection for example) - 
>> but mouse mostly works.  periodically the mouse will start jumping 
>> randomly on display and i'll have to disable the mouse device and/or 
>> restart computer to regain full control.
>>
>>
>> - boot system enabling synaptics via loader.conf.  xorg detects mouse 
>> and loads the synaptics xorg driver.  advanced features mostly work - 
>> but after a short amount of time (several hours) mouse becomes much 
>> more erratic than scenario above.  a system restart is required to 
>> regain control of mouse.
>>
>>
>> i've done a bunch of testing of passing synaptic Xorg params that I 
>> got from a working ubuntu install, but that has not helped.  i'm kind 
>> of at a loss at this point though, is the issue with Xorg or with 
>> FreeBSD's synaptics kernel implementation?  any pointers for 
>> debugging would be really appreciated!
>>
>>
>> -pete
>>
>
> Well, synaptics is not working for me at all (Dell XPS 13 Skylake). It 
> loads, but produces a lot of spam in xorg log, mouse jumping randomly. 
> It works as sysmouse. So, I think yes, Xorg or FreeBSD has something 
> fishy with synaptics. Personally, I'm waiting for evdev or libinput 
> support, so I disabled touchpad.
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