In message <20051214002654.GA2783@quark.mobile.fnop.net>, Rui Paulo writes:
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>Seems like my Synaptics touchpad only works if I disable the
>inputstate switch-clause around line 678 of
>sys/dev/pckbport/synaptics.c.
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>Peraphs this check is wrong for touchpads like mine ?
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>My touchpad has a hardware controlled on/off switch on the keyboard
>that, I guess, only disables the motion sense. This key, on the
>keyboard :-), also produces a key event (useful maybe for the Windows
>OSD driver which comes bundled with the laptop).
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>Any hints ? I'm not very familiar with the Synaptics spec. I just read
>it briefly.
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I misread your original post, so I thought your problem was the same as 
mine.  I have a Thinkpad T42, and my touchpad does work.  However, if 
it's enabled in the BIOS, the trackpoint does not.  I'd like them both 
to be enabled simultaneously.  Any hints?

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb