freebsd-mobile Digest, Vol 354, Issue 3

[Nicholas McKenzie]

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>   1. Weird right click issues when using freebsd synaptics driver
>      (Nicholas McKenzie)
>   2. Re: Weird right click issues when using freebsd synaptics
>      driver (Brandon Gooch)
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> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:35:36 -0800
> From: Nicholas McKenzie <nicholassmckenzie at gmail.com>
> Subject: Weird right click issues when using freebsd synaptics driver
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> When I use the right click on my synaptics touch pad on my HP dv5-1004nr,
> it
> sometimes works properly, but other times i get weird errors. I cannot use
> the x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics because it has some kind of glitch
> when
> being used with x11-drivers/xf86-video-[ati. radeon] that freezes the
> system. (Side note: anyone know of any workaround for this?) This leaves
> the
> only solution for enabling synaptics support in FreeBSD to add
> hw.psm.synaptics_support="1". Everything works beautifully except for the
> right mouse button. With the occasional, properly working exception, the
> following actions are experienced when right clicking:
> * Right clicking on the KDE taskbard causes it to scroll through the
> virtual
> desktops.
> * Right clicking in Firefox causes it to switch tabs or scroll to the top
> of
> the page, sometimes going back a page.
> * Right clicking in Opera causes it to scroll to the top of the page, or
> pop
> up a window that cyles through the pages (by pressing Ctrl+tab).
>
> Dmesg, loader.conf, sysctl.conf attached. The Mouse section of my
> xorg.conf:
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "auto"
> Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> #Tried both of these:
> #Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> Option "ZAxisMapping "4 5 6 7"
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:48:59 -0600
> From: Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Weird right click issues when using freebsd synaptics
>        driver
> To: Nicholas McKenzie <nicholassmckenzie at gmail.com>
> Cc: freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
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> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Nicholas McKenzie
> <nicholassmckenzie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > When I use the right click on my synaptics touch pad on my HP dv5-1004nr,
> it
> > sometimes works properly, but other times i get weird errors. I cannot
> use
> > the x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics because it has some kind of glitch
> when
> > being used with x11-drivers/xf86-video-[ati. radeon] that freezes the
> > system. (Side note: anyone know of any workaround for this?) This leaves
> the
> > only solution for enabling synaptics support in FreeBSD to add
> > hw.psm.synaptics_support="1". Everything works beautifully except for the
> > right mouse button. With the occasional, properly working exception, the
> > following actions are experienced when right clicking:
> > * Right clicking on the KDE taskbard causes it to scroll through the
> virtual
> > desktops.
> > * Right clicking in Firefox causes it to switch tabs or scroll to the top
> of
> > the page, sometimes going back a page.
> > * Right clicking in Opera causes it to scroll to the top of the page, or
> pop
> > up a window that cyles through the pages (by pressing Ctrl+tab).
> >
> > Dmesg, loader.conf, sysctl.conf attached. The Mouse section of my
> xorg.conf:
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier "Mouse0"
> > Driver "mouse"
> > Option "Protocol" "auto"
> > Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> > #Tried both of these:
> > #Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> > Option "ZAxisMapping "4 5 6 7"
> > EndSection
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> I saw this same behavior while using moused in conjunction with
> built-in (non-Xorg driver) synaptics support. I had it ALMOST working,
> but I managed to mess up my configs experimenting and couldn't get
> things back to a good state :(
>
> I finally wound up setting hw.psm.synaptics_support="1", installing
> xf86-input-synaptics-1.1.2 from ports, doing away with my xorg.conf,
> and setting everything using synclient(1).
>
> Somehow, things are working much better, although it seems several
> features of the trackpad just don't work (such as two-finger support).
>
> -Brandon
>
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Do you have an ATI card? That's why I can't use the xf86-input-synaptics
driver because it has some kind of glitch when used with radeon and radeon
hd drivers... does anyone know anything about this?