Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 19:18:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Nate Lawson <njl@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys mouse.h src/sys/isa psm.c Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040803191817.93510A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040803190259.93198B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Robert Watson wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Nate Lawson wrote: > > > Modified files: > > sys/sys mouse.h > > sys/isa psm.c > > Log: > > Add support for the Synaptics Touchpad mouse driver. I reworked the > > submitted version with style cleanups and changes to comments. I also > > modified the ioctl interface. This version only has one ioctl (to get > > the Synaptics-specific config parameters) since this is the only > > information a user might want. > > I haven't yet attempted to track down whether it was this specific > commit, but sometime in the last few days, my notebook mousepad began > behaving very strangely. I'm seeing a few different symptoms: Just to follow up on this: when I locally back out the latest psm.c revision, the problems appear to go away. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research > > - The touchpad is much more sensitive than it was before, making it > difficult to point it accurately at window borders, etc. > > - When I hold down the mouse buttons to drag, that appears not to register > properly, so I can't resize windows easily. > > - Sometimes, the mouse cursor appears to stall and not move. It then > rights itself, but I'm not sure why. > > psm now reports as "model Synaptics Touchpad, device ID 0" which I don't > recall it doing previously. > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects > robert@fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research > > >
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