Re: 6.0RC1 - enabling synaptics touchpad freezes machine
Eric Schuele <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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[email protected] wrote: > > > On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Eric Schuele wrote: > >> [email protected] wrote: >> >>> >>> I try to enable touchpad support on an Acer Travelmate 8104 >>> by setting hw.psm.synaptics_support="1" in loader.conf. >>> >> >> I have a synaptics touchpad on a Dell Inspiron. I've never used the >> above (and never had the problems you mention below)... >> >> I add >> hint.psm.0.flags="0x1000" >> to my /boot/device.hints file to get it working. >> >> Might give it a try. Presently running 6.0-STABLE as of this >> morning... but the above hint has been working since 5.x days. >> > > I should have expressed myself better. The touchpad works with no special > settings, but only as a generic 2-button ps2 mouse. What I'm after is > "more buttons" and that should (in theory) be accomplished with the > synaptics_support setting. > Eric, could you try to set this variable and see if it works with your > hardware? Sorry for not responding sooner. What "more buttons" would I experience? Presently I can use the left, the right, and both at the same time. I don't mind setting it... but what should I do to see if the desired functionality exists? Or are we just looking for it to hang my machine (or not)? > > I'm no kernel hacker, but any advice on how to debug this would be > appreciated. > > -tom > >> HTH >> >>> After that any access to psm0 seems to hang the machine solid. >>> For instance running 'moused -p /dev/psm0' or starting Xorg with >>> psm0 as mousedevice freezes the machine immediately, and I have >>> to use the power button to recover. >>> >>> This is an out-of-the-box 6.0RC1 Generic kernel. The only >>> other change I've done is to disable acpi, though that doesn't >>> change anything regarding the touchpad problem. >>> >>> Is anyone else seeing something similar (and preferably have >>> a solution)? >>> >>> Output of dmesg is found below. >>> >>> -tom >>> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Eric >> > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > -- Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"