From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 6 17:12:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84D0216A46C for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:12:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B07E13C455 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:12:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h28so183296wxd for ; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:12:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.52.2 with SMTP id z2mr792697agz.1181149931175; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:12:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.3? ( [217.196.247.135]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 31sm6930949nfu.2007.06.06.10.12.10; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:12:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4666EAE9.3020200@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:12:09 +0100 From: Robin Becker User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4662C2A1.3070702@jessikat.plus.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Synaptics trackpad problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:12:14 -0000 Paul Fraser wrote: > On 6/3/07, Robin Becker wrote: >> Any help appreciated > > Hi Robin, > > I know this isn't going to be much of a comfort - but I've had great > difficulty trying to get Xorg to work nicely with - surprise - the > Synaptics touchpad on my Acer notebook as well. I posted to the list > almost a week ago reporting that while Xorg worked brilliantly one day > - suddenly it stopped working. > > I did blow the installation away and started again (unrelated issue) > the other day and the touchpad is working much as it was before. I > don't have my specific Xorg config in front of me as the missus has > stolen the laptop today unfortunately, however I've flagged this > thread so I'll attach it and send it over to you tonight. Thanks I appreciate it. With my machine I can get the 1280x800 mode using 915resolution hack and I do have a mouse if I drop the touchpad entirely (from loader.conf and xorg.conf) and use moused_enable="YES" in rc.conf. For whatever reason the synaptics stuff is a bit flaky on my machine as I have had a couple of forced reboots with hw.psm.synaptics_support=1. If all else fails I will try and do the new 7.2 Xorg build from scratch. -- Robin Becker