o better quality of the movement smoothing
o more features such as tap-hold and virtual scrolling
Support must still be enabled with this line in your /boot/loader.conf:
hw.psm.synaptics_support="1"
The following sysctls were removed:
hw.psm.synaptics.low_speed_threshold
hw.psm.synaptics.min_movement
hw.psm.synaptics.squelch_level
An overview of this new driver and a short documentation about the added
sysctls is available on the wiki:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/SynapticsTouchpad
After I removed all the unit2minor()/minor2unit() calls from the kernel
yesterday, I realised calling minor() everywhere is quite confusing.
Character devices now only have the ability to store a unit number, not
a minor number. Remove the confusion by using dev2unit() everywhere.
This commit could also be considered as a bug fix. A lot of drivers call
minor(), while they should actually be calling dev2unit(). In -CURRENT
this isn't a problem, but it turns out we never had any problem reports
related to that issue in the past. I suspect not many people connect
more than 256 pieces of the same hardware.
Reviewed by: kib
pretend to be IntelliMouse (which have a few more features than generic mice)
causing the IntelliMouse probe to work and the Synaptics code never to be
called.
This should not break "real" IntelliMouse because the Synaptics detection code
is fairly specific.
PR: kern/120833
Submitted by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd -at- codelabs.ru>
MFC after: 1 week
commands can be written to /dev/psm%d and status can be read back from it.
- Reflect the change in psm(4) and bump version for ports.
MFC after: 1 week
first before they can be set to Explorer mode.
PR: kern/118578
Submitted by: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> (I added some comments)
Reviewed by: philip
MFC after: 1 month
to set_controller_command_byte() call; by issueing a Read Mode Byte
command, the touchpad is in Absolute Mode again.
This problem occursed at least on Asus V6V laptops.
files after they were repo-copied to sys/dev/atkbdc. The sources of
atkbdc(4) and its children were moved to the new location in preparation
for adding an EBus front-end to atkbdc(4) for use on sparc64; i.e. in
order to not further scatter them over the whole tree which would have
been the result of adding atkbdc_ebus.c in e.g. sys/sparc64/ebus. Another
reason for the repo-copies was that some of the sources were misfiled,
e.g. sys/isa/atkbd_isa.c wasn't ISA-specific at all but for hanging
atkbd(4) off of atkbdc(4) and was renamed to atkbd_atkbdc.c accordingly.
Most of sys/isa/psm.c, i.e. expect for its PSMC PNP part, also isn't
ISA-specific.
- Separate the parts of atkbdc_isa.c which aren't actually ISA-specific
but are shareable between different atkbdc(4) bus front-ends into
atkbdc_subr.c (repo-copied from atkbdc_isa.c). While here use
bus_generic_rl_alloc_resource() and bus_generic_rl_release_resource()
respectively in atkbdc_isa.c instead of rolling own versions.
- Add sparc64 MD bits to atkbdc(4) and atkbd(4) and an EBus front-end for
atkbdc(4). PS/2 controllers and input devices are used on a couple of
Sun OEM boards and occur on either the EBus or the ISA bus. Depending on
the board it's either the only on-board mean to connect a keyboard and
mouse or an alternative to either RS232 or USB devices.
- Wrap the PSMC PNP part of psm.c in #ifdef DEV_ISA so it can be compiled
without isa(4) (e.g. for EBus-only machines). This ISA-specific part
isn't separated into its own source file, yet, as it requires more work
than was feasible for 6.0 in order to do it in a clean way. Actually
philip@ is working on a rewrite of psm(4) so a more comprehensive
clean-up and separation of hardware dependent and independent parts is
expected to happen after 6.0.
Tested on: i386, sparc64 (AX1105, AXe and AXi boards)
Reviewed by: philip
o Implement a shiny new algorithm to keep track of finger movement at
slow speeds. This dramatically reduces the level of questionable
language from users trying to resize windows.
o Properly catch the many extra buttons and dials which manufacturers
are known to screw onto Synaptics touchpad controllers. Currently,
up to seven buttons are known to work, more should work too.
o Add a number of sysctls allowing one to tune the driver to taste in
a simple way:
# Should the extra buttons act as axes or as middle button
hw.psm.synaptics.directional_scrolls
# These control the 'stickiness' at low speeds
hw.psm.synaptics.low_speed_threshold
hw.psm.synaptics.min_movement
hw.psm.synaptics.squelch_level
PR: kern/75725
Submitted by: Jason Kuri <jay@oneway.com>
MFC after: 1 month
o Move the sysctls under debug.psm.* and hw.psm.* making them a bit
clearer and more consistent with other drivers.
o Remove the debug.psm_soft_timeout sysctl. It was introduced many
moons ago in r1.64 but never referenced anywhere.
o Introduce hw.psm.tap_threshold and hw.psm.tap_timeout to control
the behaviour of taps on touchpads. People might like to fiddle
with these if tapping seems to slow or too fast for them.
o Add debug.psm.loglevel as a tunable so that verbosity can be set
easily at boot-time (to watch probes and such) without having to
compile a kernel with options PSM_DEBUG=N.
people have reported problems (stickyness, aiming difficulty) which is proving
difficult to fix, so this will default to disable until sometime after 5.3R.
To enable Synaptics support, set the 'hw.psm.synaptics_support=1' tunable.
MT5 candidate.
Approved by: njl
o Remove PSM_SYNCERR_THRESHOLD1. This value specified how many sync
errors were required before the mouse is re-initialised.
Re-initialisation is now done after (packetsize * 2) sync errors as
things aren't likely to improve after that.
o Reset lastinputerror when re-initialisation occurs. We don't want
to continue to drop data after re-initialisation.
o Count the number of failed packets independently of the syncerrors
statistic. syncerrors is useful for recovering sync within a single
packet. pkterrors allows us to detect when the mouse changes its
packet mode due to some external event (e.g. KVM switch).
o Reinitialize the mouse if we see more than psmpkterrthresh errors
during the validation period. The validation period begins as soon
as a sync error is detected and continues until psmerrsecs/msecs
time has elapsed. The defaults for these two values force a reset
if we see two packet errors in a 2 second period. This allows rapid
detection of packet framing errors caused by the mouse changing packet
modes.
o Export psmpkterrthresh as a sysctl
o Export psmloglevel as a sysctl.
o Enable more debugging code to be enabled at runtime via psmloglevel.
o Simplify verbose conditioned loging by using a VLOG macro.
o Add several comments describing the sync recovery algorithm of
this driver.
Large Portions by: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Inspired and Frustrated by: Belkin KVMs
Reviewed by: njl, philip
data packet is received from the mouse. In the case of many KVM's,
this avoids a bug in their mouse emulation that sends back incorrect
sync when you explicitly request a data packet from the mouse. Without
this change, you must force the driver into stock PS/2 mode or be flooded
with a never ending stream of "out of sync" messages on these KVMs.
Approved by: re
o Change the motion calculation to result in
a more reasonable speed of motion
This should fix the 'aiming' problems people have reported. It also
mitigates (but doesn't completely solve) the 'stalling' problems at
very low speeds.
Tested by: many subscribers to -current
Approved by: njl
o Catch 'taps' as button presses
o One finger sends button1, two fingers send button3,
three fingers send button2 (double-click)
Tested by: many subscribers to -current
Approved by: njl
o Handle the 'up/down' buttons some touchpads have as
a z-axis (scrollwheel) as recommended by the specs
o Report the buttons as button4 and button5 instead
of button2 and button4, button2 can be emulated by
pressing button1 and button3 simultaneously. This
allows one to use the two extra buttons for other
purposes if one so desires.
Tested by: many subscribers to -current
Approved by: njl
o Clean up whitespace and comments in the
enable_synaptics() probing function
o Only use (and rely on) the extended capability
bits when we are told they actually exist
o Partly ignore the (possibly dated?) part of the
specification about the mode byte so that we
can support 'guest devices' too.
Tested by: many subscribers to -current
Approved by: njl
submitted version with style cleanups and changes to comments. I also
modified the ioctl interface. This version only has one ioctl (to get
the Synaptics-specific config parameters) since this is the only
information a user might want.
Submitted by: Arne Schwabe <arne -at- rfc2549.org>
scenario into #ifdef DEBUG. This makes my cluster with Belkin
KVM switch completely usable, even if the KVM switch and mouse
get a bit confused sometimes.
Without this, when the mouse gets confused, all sorts of crud
gets spammed all over the screen. With this, the mouse may appear
dead for a second or three, but it recovers silently.
Introduce d_version field in struct cdevsw, this must always be
initialized to D_VERSION.
Flip sense of D_NOGIANT flag to D_NEEDGIANT, this involves removing
four D_NOGIANT flags and adding 145 D_NEEDGIANT flags.
Free approx 86 major numbers with a mostly automatically generated patch.
A number of strategic drivers have been left behind by caution, and a few
because they still (ab)use their major number.
when using a KVM.
There is no actual solution possible, but this gets us pretty close.
Typically when switching back to a FreeBSD box and moving the mouse
wild data is produced, because the protocol's validation/checksum
system is extremely weak it is impossible to determine that we're
out of sync before dropping several bogus packets to user land.
The actual solution that appears to offer the best clamping of
jitter is to buffer the mouse packets if we've not seen mouse
activity for more than .5 seconds. Then waiting to flush that data
for 1/20th of a second. If within that 20th of a second we get any
packets that do fail the weak test we drop the entire queue and
back off accepting data from the mouse for 2 seconds and then repeat
the whole deal.
You can still get _some_ jitter, notably if you switch to the FreeBSD
box, then move the mouse just enough to generate one or two packets.
Those packets may be bogus, but may still pass the validity check.
One way to finally kill the problem once and for all is to check
the initial packets for "wild" values. Typically one sees packets
in the +/-60 range during normal operation, however when bogus data
is generated it's typically near the outer range of +/-120 or more,
those packets would be a good candidate for dropping or clamping.
I've been running with this for several weeks now and it has
significantly helped me stay sane even with a piece of junk Belkin
KVM causing wild jitter each and every time I switch.
Lastly I'd like to note that my experience with Windows shows me that
somehow the Microsoft PS/2 driver typically avoids this problem, but
that may only be possible when running the mouse in a dumb-ed down PS/2
mode that Belkin recommends on their site.
thread being waken up. The thread waken up can run at a priority as
high as after tsleep().
- Replace selwakeup()s with selwakeuppri()s and pass appropriate
priorities.
- Add cv_broadcastpri() which raises the priority of the broadcast
threads. Used by selwakeuppri() if collision occurs.
Not objected in: -arch, -current
branches:
Initialize struct cdevsw using C99 sparse initializtion and remove
all initializations to default values.
This patch is automatically generated and has been tested by compiling
LINT with all the fields in struct cdevsw in reverse order on alpha,
sparc64 and i386.
Approved by: re(scottl)
