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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 > 
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 > 

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Of course it runs NetBSD

Bruce O'Neel                       phone:  +41 22 950 91 57
INTEGRAL Science Data Centre               +41 22 950 91 00 (switchb.)
Chemin d'Ecogia 16                 fax:    +41 22 950 91 35
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