From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 6 06:40:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B5316A537 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 06:40:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE5643D54 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 06:40:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id i966eKvV008928; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 23:40:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (pool-68-160-246-51.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.246.51]) (authenticated bits=0)i966eEWh010560; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 23:40:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <9404B044-1762-11D9-B1D0-003065A20588@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 02:40:14 -0400 To: Igor Partola X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 06:40:21 -0000 On Oct 6, 2004, at 12:20 AM, Igor Partola wrote: [ ... ] > 1) My touchpad is an ALPS touchpad. When I had Linux running on this > machine I had to patch the kernel so it would work with a synaptics > ALPS driver (within synaptics there is a file called alps.patch). > FreeBSD recognizes the touchpad as an ALPS glidepoint, but the > sensetivity is terrible! I use moused and X11 uses /dev/sysmouse, so I > tried to tweak with moused options. I managed to speed up the pointer > but it gets really hard to point precisely. (In Windows where I can > use the native driver from Apoint it is a lot smoother). Any > solutions? There have been some recent discussions about that kind of touchpad. You might have to update from 5.2.1 to a more recent 5.3-beta in order to obtain improvements, but "man psm" under 5.3 mentions: bit 11 FORCETAP Some pad devices report as if the fourth button is pressed when the user `taps' the surface of the device (see CAVEATS). This flag will make the psm driver assume that the device behaves this way. Without the flag, the driver will assume this behavior for ALPS GlidePoint models only. [ ... ] CAVEATS Many pad devices behave as if the first (left) button were pressed if the user `taps' the surface of the pad. In contrast, some pad products, e.g. some versions of ALPS GlidePoint and Interlink VersaPad, treat the tap- ping action as fourth button events. It is reported that Interlink VersaPad requires both HOOKRESUME and INITAFTERSUSPEND flags in order to recover from suspended state. These flags are automatically set when VersaPad is detected by the psm driver. Perhaps try setting: hint.psm.0.flags="0x800" ...in /boot/device.hints...and see whether that helps. > 2) The ACPI partially works: S1 is supported but it'd be nice to turn > off the screen with it. By the way if I disable ACPI (acpiconf -d), > closing the lid turns off the screen. Is there a config file or > something I could edit? > > 3) S3 sleep state reboots the computer. Has anybody gotten it working? > Is there an expected fix of it? Likewise, there has been a fair number of improvements to ACPI power management support between 5.2.1 and 5.3; updating to a more recent version is likely to help. -- -Chuck