Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 14:38:21 +0200 From: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PLEASE TEST] Better support for Synaptics Touchpads Message-ID: <86vffx69qa.fsf@kamino.rfc1149.org> In-Reply-To: <20040805085807.GD595@loge.nixsys.be> (Philip Paeps's message of "Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:58:07 %2B0200") References: <20040805071236.GA595@loge.nixsys.be> <20040805085807.GD595@loge.nixsys.be>
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Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org> writes: > On 2004-08-05 10:34:28 (+0200), Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org> wrote: >> Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org> writes: >> > If you happen to own a laptop with a synaptics touchpad, please help test: >> > >> > <http://people.freebsd.org/~philip/psm.diff>; >> >> + * 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. ;) > > It might be fun to do :-) Given enough physical and virtual buttons, we > should be able to emulate a full-scale piano over ps/2. *grin* > > Do you know of any documentation more recent than the ACF126.pdf from the > Synaptics site? Guessing is a bit tedious... Well the programmers of the XFree86 Driver did do that guesswork or had better documentation. Arne -- compiling millions of tiny c-programs...done checking for a working configure script... not found
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