Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 15:52:47 +0000 From: Matt Dawson <matt@chronos.org.uk> To: Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov@comcast.net>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade Message-ID: <200902011552.48414.matt@chronos.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <E1LTdS0-000PUf-Vb@daland.home> References: <200901311153.58361.vehemens@verizon.net> <200902011417.18045.matt@chronos.org.uk> <E1LTdS0-000PUf-Vb@daland.home>
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On Sunday 01 February 2009 14:37:32 Alex Goncharov wrote: > he laptop has a touch pad, which is reasonable to assume to be > "synaptics" -- but I don't use the pad (I've physically covered it, > and use only the "pointing stick" in the middle of the keyboard); > during one my experiments I also disabled the thing in BIOS. > > And: I have never used the xf86-input-synaptics driver. > > Is this something to think about -- what is the role of this driver? > Can the lack of it bring the storm of bogus key events with wrong scan > codes? Just tried dropping the synaptics driver and option in loader.conf (it needs hw.psm.synaptics_support in /boot/loader.conf or it gets picked up as an Intellimouse) and it works as a standard mouse. The keyboard is still fine with no spurious events. The synaptics driver opens up a lot of features on the trackpad (right hand side becomes a scroll "wheel", the bottom edge becomes a horizontal scroll, it picks up multi-taps and you can tweak much of it in xorg.conf) but I don't think this is the cause of your issue. FYI, this laptop is an ECS 331, RS485 chipset with a Turion ML34 CPU running 7-STABLE amd64 from Jan 12th. If anyone's interested (on x11@), I did just plug a USB mouse in and it Just Worked [TM] without me having to mess with anything. > | Which brings me to another little niggle: <aside> Has anyone on list > | noticed that statically compiling a keymap in your kernel >7.0-RELEASE > | ends up with the US layout in single user mode regardless? This used to > | work, but now it doesn't, unless I've missed something in NOTES > | somewhere. </aside> > > I can't comment on it -- but why to do it: why not to use the xkb > extensions (Option "XkbLayout" "gb" -- or something of that sort)? This was a general question to stable@ since I use the console a lot on servers and this used to stop me putting things like securelevel_enable=@YES@ into rc.conf and rebooting without noticing what I'd done, then engaging in percussive maintenance because it refuses to boot ;o) -- Matt Dawson MTD15-RIPE matt@chronos.org.uk
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