Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 03:29:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: How Can ThisBe <howcanthisbe300@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8100 synaptics touch pad help Message-ID: <20020807032935.D36578-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <F55WNE1iZaf6t4CMMG600021003@hotmail.com>
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On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, How Can ThisBe wrote: > What is really strange is we let the computer sit for a bit while we > researched heaps of XF86Config's. Pulled out all the USB things we had > tired. We then enabled the mouse at the console only first. dmesg | grep > mouse was showing /dev/psm0 so we did moused -p /dev/psm0 and the mouse > worked :] > > XFree86 -configure > Made a new config but still said mouse not found, so we edited the config to > this: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "auto" > Option "Device" "/dev/psm0" > EndSection > > Then ran the new config, complained about the mouse already being used, so > killall moused and ran it again. When using moused, you have to set your mouse device to /dev/sysmouse. Joe > > And that was it! All is working good again. Besides enabling the mouse at > the console first, we did everything else before, that is what I do not > understand. I'm just happy its working now. > > Thanks > > >From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > >Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8100 synaptics touch pad help > > > >On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 14:44, How Can ThisBe wrote: > > > > > > I'm having huge problems trying to get the touch pad on a Dell Inspiron > >8100 > > > (with an ATi Radeon 7500 video chip) to work. This is both with and > >without > > > XFree86-4. I have also tried to use a USB mouse without luck. We have > >even > > > tried with a Wacom tablet! :] > > > >Checkout my example XF86Config file for my 8100 at > >http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/XF86Config. Ignore the video card > >section as I have the G2G card. Also, this assumes you're running > >moused out of rc.conf with the -3 flag. > > > >Joe > > > > > > > > This on a FreeBSD 4.6-Release system > > > > > > Any pointers would be much appreciated > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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