Re: Synaptics touchpad issues

[Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net>]

Sandor Palfy wrote:
> 
> HP omnibook xe4500, 3.5-stable.
> I have to disable ohci because it makes kernel freeze on boot. The
> touchpad (synaptics on ps/2) works well, except that it is way too
> sensitive (unusable) and whenever I push a mouse button, the cursor
> moves right or up or both, about an inch. It's pretty hard to hit
> buttons ;-) Protocol is wsmouse, and I tried both wsmouse and wsmouse0
> as device. Is there any way to filter the mouse input coming from the
> tuchpad?

It's unclear what you are trying to do with a mouse, whether it is
console or X, I'm going to assume X. (partly because it is likely,
partly because I haven't figured out how to slow down wsmoused 8-)

Try xset, look at the 'm' option.  I haven't had opportunity to need
to slow the mouse down, but it made it possible to slide side-to-side
across three 1280x1024 monitors without picking up the mouse five
times. 8)

> Regards,
> Sandor
> 
> OpenBSD 3.5 (GENERIC) #34: Mon Mar 29 12:24:55 MST 2004
>     deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC

thanks!

Nick.
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