On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 02:11:40PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 22:56:59 +0000 (UTC)
> mlelstv@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) wrote:
> > lists@jhweiss.de (Holger Weiss) writes:
> > >> I disabled the trackpad in the bios and the trackpoint and 3
> > >> buttons work fine.
> > >Same here.
> > Can you pleaes try http://serpens.de/~mlelstv/netbsd/synaptics.patch ?
> > 
> 
> I installed this patch several days ago, but I just started using the
> laptop heavily.  I'm seeing a heavy incidence of character
> duplication.  Now, that isn't a new problem, especially for xorg users,
> but I haven''t been seeing it lately.  It's suddenly gotten much more
> severe, so I'm wondering if theree's a connection.  Character echo is
> also sluggish, evven thoough I'm running on line power on an idle
> machine.

I haven't seen the character duplication for quite some time. I use
X.org from pkgsrc and went from NetBSD3 to NetBSD4, both with the
Synaptics passthrough support added.


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