Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 10:34:28 +0200 From: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PLEASE TEST] Better support for Synaptics Touchpads Message-ID: <86ekmmhtkb.fsf@kamino.rfc1149.org> In-Reply-To: <20040805071236.GA595@loge.nixsys.be> (Philip Paeps's message of "Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:12:36 %2B0200") References: <20040805071236.GA595@loge.nixsys.be>
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Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org> writes: > Hi gang :-) > > Since the original synaptics support was added to psm, there have been some > reports of malfunctions and missing magic. I've tried to fix all that, but > it's still work in progress. z> > If you happen to own a laptop with a synaptics touchpad, please help test: > > <http://people.freebsd.org/~philip/psm.diff> > > So far, I've had one report of a panic, possibly related to an extra gadget > chained through the the touchpad. If you're extra masochistic, and your > laptop has one of these extra gadgets, you might like to remove the #if 0 > around line 2537 and the #endif around line 2568 of your sys/isa/psm.c. > + * XXX: This is largely guesswork. The documentation from + * Synaptics doesn't mention guest devices, but it appears + * that packets from a stick are simple ps/2 packets... They are ps/2 packets but if you are crazy you can send the guest ps/2 device some ps/2 commands to put it into a special mode where can get features like pressure but well I don't know if that is really needed. ;) Arne -- compiling millions of tiny c-programs...done checking for a working configure script... not found
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