Re: 8.0 BETA: touchpad taps occur while typing

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 02:28:50PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:53:26AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 02:04:24PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 09:37:39AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > > that's fine, pckbc (pms@pckbd@pckbc, actually) handles synaptics too.
> > > > There's no separate driver for synaptics in the NetBSD kernel.
> > > 
> > > 'man pms' shows a lot of hw.synaptics.* properties.
> > > 
> > > But 'sysctl -a' does not show them. I thought, if applicable it would have
> > > shown at least the default values.
> > 
> > So, indeed your touchpad is not detected as synaptics.
> > In this case it's probably the hardware itself which handles
> > the gestures, not the driver.
> 
> On Linux it is detected as synaptics and the present issue does not occur.
> May be I can try tinkering with "synaptics detection" part of the kernel
> (since it is known to work as synaptics on other OS). I'll just need some
> help to reach the right code and some high level guidance.

It's probably a newer synaptics hardware, which may need a different code.
It needs to be looked at.
BTW the code is in src/sys/dev/pckbport/, look at pms* and synaptics*

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