Subject: RE: PB540c trackpads
To: Jan Schenkel <jan.schenkel@pandora.be>
From: Bruce O'Neel <bruce.oneel@obs.unige.ch>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/04/2002 16:04:43
Hi,
Thanks, I think that these trackpads were first on the PB5300, but,
who knows, they may have been installed on some PB500s as well.
Thanks!
cheers
bruce
Jan Schenkel writes:
> Hi Bruce,
>
> Off the top of my head, I think the PB 500 series were the first equipped
> with a trackpad that allowed the user to "tap" on it. Maybe the sensitivity
> is set too high, so that it thinks that you're clicking, when you're
> actually just moving the pointer around ?
>
> Just my 2 euro-cents,
>
> Jan Schenkel.
>
> "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."
> (De Rochefoucald)
>
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: port-mac68k-owner@netbsd.org
> [mailto:port-mac68k-owner@netbsd.org]Namens Bruce O'Neel
> Verzonden: dinsdag 2 april 2002 13:55
> Aan: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
> Onderwerp: PB540c trackpads
>
>
> Hi,
>
> In my effort to to get NetBSD running on my PB540c I'm now up to
> having problems with the mouse (well, it's a builtin trackpad really).
> On bootup it identifies itself as:
>
> ams0 at adb0 addr 3: Logitech MouseMan (non-EMP) mouse
>
> If I start X things work fine until I move the mouse, then random
> things on the screen are selected, cut, and pasted if I'm in an xterm,
> or the menu keeps dropping up and down if I'm over part of the screen
> controlled by twm.
>
> Thinking it was just X and the fact that I'm running a LC040, I built
> dt, cool program btw, but if I turn on the mouse there it behaves
> similarly to the way it behaves in X. This implys that somewhere in
> the kernel, say ams.c, the mouse is getting processed wrong, right?
>
> Is it possible that an external mouse would solve the problem? I
> could deal with that. Otherwise I guess I'm off to find out what the
> problem is in the kernel...
>
> cheers
>
> bruce
>
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