Re: [Fwd: i-Buddie 4: Synaptics touch pad FreeBSD support?]
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: If you want to get tpconfig to work (so that you can customise various features of the touchpad), I have a PR that will allow you to do this. It is a combination of a hack to the kernel, and a port of tpconfig. Look at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24299 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20352 I am afraid that I do not have (yet) enough FreeBSD experience to grasp the impact of these. I am already very pleased that I can use the standard ps/2 mouse driver to use the touch pad. I had to use moused_enable=NO in my /etc/rc.conf and use Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/psm0 Option Emulate3Buttons to have the mouse working properly, and was happy that this also took care of the touch pad. The windoze driver offers a set of extra features which I found useful and which I would appreciate on a FreeBSD box: - configurable touch behaviour - edge motion - scrolling - button actions (including virtual btns supplied by the 4 corners) I'm very willing to supply more info on these features. I have no idea whether any of these are supplied by the tpconfig stuff. The only feature I found any mention of in that package, is the ability to disable the 'tap to click'. But maybe that is just a lack of documentation. -- Guido Van Hoecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: [Fwd: i-Buddie 4: Synaptics touch pad FreeBSD support?]
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 16:54, Guido Van Hoecke wrote: The windoze driver offers a set of extra features which I found useful and which I would appreciate on a FreeBSD box: - configurable touch behaviour - edge motion - scrolling - button actions (including virtual btns supplied by the 4 corners) I'm very willing to supply more info on these features. I have no idea whether any of these are supplied by the tpconfig stuff. The only feature I found any mention of in that package, is the ability to disable the 'tap to click'. But maybe that is just a lack of documentation. None of those features are possible without putting the device in absolute mode :( I should just get off my lazy ass and get it to work :) If anyone is interested the specs are readily available from the synaptics web site. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
[Fwd: i-Buddie 4: Synaptics touch pad FreeBSD support?]
I hope it is acceptable to send this also to the hackers list, due to
the absence of traffic about touch pads on the questions list:
Original Message
Subject: i-Buddie 4: Synaptics touch pad FreeBSD support?
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 00:40:48 +0200
From: Guido Van Hoecke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.questions
I am experimenting with FreeBSD to be prepared when my new i-Buddie 4
arrives. (Specs at http://desknote.biz/sub/spec-i-buddie4.htm). I wonder
whether anybody has any experience with this new 'desknote' computer.
I specifically would like support for the Synaptics touch pad, but did
not find much in the FreeBSD documentation, nor in the ports collection.
So I went to see at http://www.synaptics.com/support/downloads.cfm and
found a pointer to a linux 'tpconfig' touch pad driver available at
http://compass.com/synaptics/ which has not yet been ported to FreeBSD.
So I tried to use this on my little FreeBSD testbox:
~/tpconfig-3.1.3 # ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E
checking for fcntl.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
~/tpconfig-3.1.3 # ./make
Makefile, line 254: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
~/tpconfig-3.1.3 #
I used vim to add line numbers in the Makefile and copypasted the result:
1 # Generated automatically from Makefile.in by configure.
2 # Makefile.in generated automatically by automake 1.4 from Makefile.am
3
4 # Copyright (C) 1994, 1995-8, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 # This Makefile.in is free software; the Free Software Foundation
6 # gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
7 # with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
8
9 # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law; without
11 # even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
12 # PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
13
14 # Source: $Id: Makefile.am,v 1.2 2000/11/05 21:50:25 cph Exp $
15
16
17 SHELL = /bin/sh
18
19 srcdir = .
20 top_srcdir = .
21 prefix = /usr/local
22 exec_prefix = ${prefix}
23
24 bindir = ${exec_prefix}/bin
25 sbindir = ${exec_prefix}/sbin
26 libexecdir = ${exec_prefix}/libexec
27 datadir = ${prefix}/share
28 sysconfdir = ${prefix}/etc
29 sharedstatedir = ${prefix}/com
30 localstatedir = ${prefix}/var
31 libdir = ${exec_prefix}/lib
32 infodir = ${prefix}/info
33 mandir = ${prefix}/man
34 includedir = ${prefix}/include
35 oldincludedir = /usr/include
36
37 DESTDIR =
38
39 pkgdatadir = $(datadir)/tpconfig
40 pkglibdir = $(libdir)/tpconfig
41 pkgincludedir = $(includedir)/tpconfig
42
43 top_builddir = .
44
45 ACLOCAL = aclocal
46 AUTOCONF = autoconf
47 AUTOMAKE = automake
48 AUTOHEADER = autoheader
49
50 INSTALL = /usr/bin/install -c
51 INSTALL_PROGRAM = ${INSTALL} $(AM_INSTALL_PROGRAM_FLAGS)
52 INSTALL_DATA = ${INSTALL} -m 644
53 INSTALL_SCRIPT = ${INSTALL_PROGRAM}
54 transform = s,x,x,
55
56 NORMAL_INSTALL = :
57 PRE_INSTALL = :
58 POST_INSTALL = :
59 NORMAL_UNINSTALL = :
60 PRE_UNINSTALL = :
61 POST_UNINSTALL = :
62 CC = gcc
63 MAKEINFO = makeinfo
64 PACKAGE = tpconfig
65 VERSION = 3.1.3
66
67 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = VERSION=1.2
68 bin_PROGRAMS = tpconfig
69 tpconfig_SOURCES = tpconfig.c synaptics.c ALPS.c utils.c
70 MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = Makefile.in configure aclocal.m4
install-sh
missing mkinstalldirs COPYING INSTALL
71
72 # don't know why this is being omitted...
73 EXTRA_DIST = configure
74 ACLOCAL_M4 = $(top_srcdir)/aclocal.m4
75 mkinstalldirs = $(SHELL) $(top_srcdir)/mkinstalldirs
76 CONFIG_CLEAN_FILES =
77 PROGRAMS = $(bin_PROGRAMS)
78
79
80 DEFS = -DPACKAGE=\tpconfig\ -DVERSION=\3.1.3\ -DHAVE_FCNTL_H=1
-DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -I. -I$(srcdir)
81 CPPFLAGS =
82 LDFLAGS =
83
Re: [Fwd: i-Buddie 4: Synaptics touch pad FreeBSD support?]
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Guido Van Hoecke wrote: So I went to see at http://www.synaptics.com/support/downloads.cfm and found a pointer to a linux 'tpconfig' touch pad driver available at http://compass.com/synaptics/ which has not yet been ported to FreeBSD. This is just a laptop with a touchpad. Chances are pretty good it's supported out of the box by FreeBSD's moused and even better than if you can't get sysmouse support that there's a driver in XFree86 for it. The linux driver is completely irrelevant not to mention the fact that I can't seem to download it in order to see what they thought was so special about their trackpad it was worthy of its own driver. Most of them just act like PS/2 mice. Molehill !Mountain Brandon D. Valentine -- http://www.geekpunk.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++[++-][++-].[+-][+-]+.+++..++ +.+[++-]++.+++..+++.--..+. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: [Fwd: i-Buddie 4: Synaptics touch pad FreeBSD support?]
Brandon D. Valentine wrote: This is just a laptop with a touchpad. Chances are pretty good it's supported out of the box by FreeBSD's moused and ... Most of them just act like PS/2 mice. Thanks, you're right: it works like a charm on the test notebook; I had never thought to try it that way. Guido. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: [Fwd: i-Buddie 4: Synaptics touch pad FreeBSD support?]
On 27 Sep 2002, Daniel O'Connor wrote: You can put them into a special mode which allows you to do more stuff with them (get absolute position and pressure information and the like). I'd love to see FreeBSD get theremin support. ;-) [ Orthogonally cool is using syntapics touchpad output to generate entropy for /dev/random. ] Brandon D. Valentine -- http://www.geekpunk.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++[++-][++-].[+-][+-]+.+++..++ +.+[++-]++.+++..+++.--..+. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: [Fwd: i-Buddie 4: Synaptics touch pad FreeBSD support?]
If you want to get tpconfig to work (so that you can customise various features of the touchpad), I have a PR that will allow you to do this. It is a combination of a hack to the kernel, and a port of tpconfig. Look at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24299 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20352 -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
