Re: Dell Inspiron 8100 synaptics touch pad help

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 <[email protected]>
> >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
> > >
>
>
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