cvs commit: src/sys/sys mouse.h src/sys/isa psm.c

[Robert Watson]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Nate Lawson wrote:

>   Modified files:
>     sys/sys              mouse.h 
>     sys/isa              psm.c 
>   Log:
>   Add support for the Synaptics Touchpad mouse driver.  I reworked the
>   submitted version with style cleanups and changes to comments.  I also
>   modified the ioctl interface.  This version only has one ioctl (to get
>   the Synaptics-specific config parameters) since this is the only
>   information a user might want.

I haven't yet attempted to track down whether it was this specific commit,
but sometime in the last few days, my notebook mousepad began behaving
very strangely.  I'm seeing a few different symptoms:

- The touchpad is much more sensitive than it was before, making it
  difficult to point it accurately at window borders, etc.

- When I hold down the mouse buttons to drag, that appears not to register
  properly, so I can't resize windows easily.

- Sometimes, the mouse cursor appears to stall and not move.  It then
  rights itself, but I'm not sure why.

psm now reports as "model Synaptics Touchpad, device ID 0" which I don't
recall it doing previously.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research