svn commit: r255152 - head/sys/dev/atkbdc

[Eitan Adler]

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Jung-uk Kim <jkim at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> On 2013-09-04 14:13:12 -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
>> On 2013-09-04 13:48:38 -0400, Xin Li wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>
>>> On 09/04/13 00:55, Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:
>>>> On 03.09.2013 21:22, Xin Li wrote:
>>>>> I think this broke my ThinkPad T530, the system appears like
>>>>> that the click button is "sticky" (not quite sure what's
>>>>> happening though, key combos like Alt+Tab won't work).
>>
>>>> After a quick search, it seems this laptop has a Trackpoint,
>>>> not a Synaptics touchpad, as I assumed. Therefore, you don't
>>>> need to try to revert the commits I mentioned.
>>
>>>> Instead, can you just set the trackpoint_support tunable to 0,
>>>> not the Synaptics one, to see if it isolates the issue?
>>
>>> With the following:
>>
>>> #hw.psm.synaptics_support=0 hw.psm.trackpoint_support=0
>>
>>> I am still able to reproduce the issue.  It seems like if I
>>> "swipe" my finger on the touchpad, I can recover from the
>>> situation.
>>
>> Please revert r255152.  synaptics_support was turned off by
>> default because its probing method is too intrusive, i.e., it
>> affects other mice/touchpads.  trackpoint_support is still
>> experimental.
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> Or maybe the attached patch is enough, I am not sure.

I have already reverted the commit, but can you please try with this
patch anyways?  It would help in the future when we could eliminate
the sysctl.


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