On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:48:47 +0100
Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.de> wrote:

> 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.
> 
I hadn't seen it for a long time until yesterday, and since I couldn't
think of any other system changes I got suspicious.  Now isn't a good
time to reboot, but I'll do that later tonight and see what happens.


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