Re: disable touchpad - accidental tap [was: Re: trackpad on powerbook]

2005-02-14 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Monday 14 of February 2005 08:43, Colin Leroy wrote: > On 13 Feb 2005 at 21h02, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > > Hi, > > > ... no longer. Patch attached (user can avoid disabling USB and/or ADB > > devices). > > I think i'd like to keep it simple, and besides, new Apple laptops have > an USB trac

Re: disable touchpad - accidental tap [was: Re: trackpad on powerbook]

2005-02-13 Thread Colin Leroy
On 13 Feb 2005 at 21h02, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: Hi, > ... no longer. Patch attached (user can avoid disabling USB and/or ADB > devices). I think i'd like to keep it simple, and besides, new Apple laptops have an USB trackpad, so I don't think i'll put it in. > ps. there seems to be bug i

Re: disable touchpad - accidental tap [was: Re: trackpad on powerbook]

2005-02-13 Thread Eddy Petrisor
Colin Leroy wrote: On 13 Feb 2005 at 17h02, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: Hi, On Sunday 13 of February 2005 15:05, Eddy Petrisor wrote: - the touchpad is _extremely_ sensitive and I find myself writing in various places in a document 'cause I touch t (arrrggh, just happed) the touchpad acci

Re: disable touchpad - accidental tap [was: Re: trackpad on powerbook]

2005-02-13 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Sunday 13 of February 2005 20:53, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > One functionality is missing - ability to choose which device should be > disabled and which not. For example it currently affects not only trackpad > but also my external usb mouse which is bad for me. > > Fortunately it doesn't s

Re: disable touchpad - accidental tap [was: Re: trackpad on powerbook]

2005-02-13 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Sunday 13 of February 2005 18:49, Colin Leroy wrote: > On 13 Feb 2005 at 17h02, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > and mouseemu to > disable the whole trackpad while typing. Works well, thanks! One functionality is missing - ability to choose which device should be disabled and which not. For exam

Re: disable touchpad - accidental tap [was: Re: trackpad on powerbook]

2005-02-13 Thread Colin Leroy
On 13 Feb 2005 at 17h02, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: Hi, > On Sunday 13 of February 2005 15:05, Eddy Petrisor wrote: > > > - the touchpad is _extremely_ sensitive and I find myself writing in > > various places in a document 'cause I touch t (arrrggh, just happed) > > the touchpad accidentally.

Re: disable touchpad - accidental tap [was: Re: trackpad on powerbook]

2005-02-13 Thread Colin Leroy
On 13 Feb 2005 at 17h02, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: Hi, > > - the touchpad is _extremely_ sensitive and I find myself writing in > > various places in a document 'cause I touch t (arrrggh, just happed) > > the touchpad accidentally. I found out that with tpconfig I should > > be able to configu

Re: disable touchpad - accidental tap [was: Re: trackpad on powerbook]

2005-02-13 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Sunday 13 of February 2005 15:05, Eddy Petrisor wrote: > - the touchpad is _extremely_ sensitive and I find myself writing in > various places in a document 'cause I touch t (arrrggh, just happed) the > touchpad accidentally. I found out that with tpconfig I should be able > to configure the to

disable touchpad - accidental tap [was: Re: trackpad on powerbook]

2005-02-13 Thread Eddy Petrisor
Hello, Since I have bought my Powerbook G4 laptop and installed Debian on it I had some frustrations: - accelerated video - not working - currently the radeon drivers do not support [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] on ppc - not fixable until new drivers? - my bluetooth mouse is not working. I saw it

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-12 Thread John Harrold
Another question. Fuser indicates that pbbuttonsd is somehow tied to /dev/input/mice. I understand that pbbuttonsd is used to control some of laptop specific buttons and stuff. Is pbbuttonsd necessary to use a mouse? -- --

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-12 Thread John Harrold
Sometime in February Gabriel Paubert assaulted the keyboard and produced: | > usbhid 53952 0 | | Since usbhid is loaded, I don't know what | the problem could be. Maybe OF puts it in | a non-operating (maybe power saving) state. I'm afraid I don't know what you mean by OF? | >

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-12 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 11:32:41AM -0500, John Harrold wrote: > Sometime in February Gabriel Paubert assaulted the keyboard and produced: > > | I suspect you load more modules than this. > | What does `lsmod' say? > > Oh, lots and lots of happiness: > > > absent:~# lsmod > Module

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-12 Thread John Harrold
Sometime in February Gabriel Paubert assaulted the keyboard and produced: | I suspect you load more modules than this. | What does `lsmod' say? Oh, lots and lots of happiness: absent:~# lsmod Module Size Used by ipv6 323928 12 ds 23844

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-12 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 10:50:49AM -0500, John Harrold wrote: > Sometime in February John Harrold assaulted the keyboard and produced: > > | Is there a quick way of finding this out from one of the modules files in > | /etc? > > Ahh, I found it. This is what is listed in /etc/modules > > ide-cd

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-12 Thread John Harrold
Sometime in February John Harrold assaulted the keyboard and produced: | Is there a quick way of finding this out from one of the modules files in | /etc? Ahh, I found it. This is what is listed in /etc/modules ide-cd ide-generic sbp2 snd-powermac sr_mod therm_adt746x So, why should it matter i

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-12 Thread John Harrold
Sometime in February Gabriel Paubert assaulted the keyboard and produced: | > | Don't forget to add usbdevfs so that we can have a closer | > | look at the hardware details. | > | > I believe that's added here: | > | > http://sage.che.pitt.edu/~harrold/tmp/powerbook/new_kernel/config-2.6.820050

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 04:55:22PM -0500, John Harrold wrote: > Sometime in February Gabriel Paubert assaulted the keyboard and produced: > > | Well, I've read somewhere that the new powerbooks no more have adb > | internally and the trackpad and keyboard have been replace by > | USB devices. > >

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-11 Thread John Harrold
Sometime in February Gabriel Paubert assaulted the keyboard and produced: | Well, I've read somewhere that the new powerbooks no more have adb | internally and the trackpad and keyboard have been replace by | USB devices. Gabriel, my Spanish friend, where have you been these days. I'm compiling t

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-11 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 04:10:20PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > On 11 Feb 2005 at 10h02, John Harrold wrote: > > Hi, > > > I don't know if you caught this in the original post, but this is a > > new powerbook (released last week). I'm really starting to think that > > the old adb drivers don't wo

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-11 Thread Colin Leroy
On 11 Feb 2005 at 15h02, James Tappin wrote: Hi, > I think you mean > sudo tar -zcf device-tree.tgz /proc/device-tree >^ Er, yes. I even thought explicitly "don't miss and put an x instead of a c" while writing my mail. :) -- Colin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-11 Thread James Tappin
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:29:59 +0100 Colin Leroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CL> On 11 Feb 2005 at 10h02, John Harrold wrote: CL> CL> Hi, CL> CL> > | (`sudo tar -zxf device-tree.tgz /proc/device-tree` should do) CL> > CL> > Sure I can do that. Do I post a message to this list or somewhere CL> > e

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-11 Thread Colin Leroy
On 11 Feb 2005 at 10h02, John Harrold wrote: Hi, > | (`sudo tar -zxf device-tree.tgz /proc/device-tree` should do) > > Sure I can do that. Do I post a message to this list or somewhere > else? Yes, here :) -- Colin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-11 Thread John Harrold
Sometime in February Colin Leroy assaulted the keyboard and produced: | Ah, I missed that fact. Maybe they work differently, indeed. What you | could do is create a tarball of your /proc/device-tree and post that | somewhere online, so that the real PPC hackers (that is, not me :-)) can | maybe se

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-11 Thread Colin Leroy
On 11 Feb 2005 at 10h02, John Harrold wrote: Hi, > I don't know if you caught this in the original post, but this is a > new powerbook (released last week). I'm really starting to think that > the old adb drivers don't work with the newer models. Ah, I missed that fact. Maybe they work differen

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-11 Thread John Harrold
Sometime in February Colin Leroy assaulted the keyboard and produced: | Hi, | | > adb: starting probe task... | > adb: finished probe task... | > ... | > mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice | > | > There is nothing between the starting and finished probe. Perhaps that | > is my problem ;).

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-11 Thread Colin Leroy
On 11 Feb 2005 at 08h02, John Harrold wrote: Hi, > adb: starting probe task... > adb: finished probe task... > ... > mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice > > There is nothing between the starting and finished probe. Perhaps that > is my problem ;). Certainly :) > | What does your kerne

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-11 Thread John Harrold
Sometime in February Colin Leroy assaulted the keyboard and produced: | That's wrong... Sure, Probably, I'm new here. | Do you have something like that in your dmesg log ? | | adb: starting probe task... | adb devices: [2]: 2 c4 [3]: 3 1 [7]: 7 1f | ADB keyboard at 2, handler 1 | Detected ADB k

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-11 Thread Colin Leroy
On 11 Feb 2005 at 08h02, John Harrold wrote: Hi, > I tried Ubuntu and the mouse didn't work there either. I managed to > open a terminal and look at the xorg.conf file. It appeared as though > the track pad was using /dev/psaux (according to ubuntu). That's wrong... Do you have something like

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-11 Thread John Harrold
Sometime in February Moritz Armingeon assaulted the keyboard and produced: | On 08:40 Thu 10 Feb , John Harrold wrote: | > /dev/input/mice | > /dev/input/mouse0 | > /dev/input/mouse1 | > /dev/psaux | I'm using /dev/mouse which seems to point at /dev/input/mice, but maybe it's | worth a try? T

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-11 Thread John Harrold
Sometime in February Maximilian Gerlach assaulted the keyboard and produced: | You could try the Ubuntu LiveCD and look if it works there. | If it does you can either copy the working xorg.conf (and change it to a | working XF86Config-4 ;).) or install Ubuntu :) I tried Ubuntu and the mouse didn'

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-11 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello... * John Harrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-11 09:08 +0100]: > Sometime in February Sebastian Henschel assaulted the keyboard and > produced: > > | hm, i do not think so. i have scrollwheel functionality with the help of > | mouseemu (http://www.geekounet.org/powerbook/files/mouseemu.tar

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-10 Thread John Harrold
Howdy Sebastian (sorry if you got this multiple times), Sometime in February Sebastian Henschel assaulted the keyboard and produced: | hm, i do not think so. i have scrollwheel functionality with the help of | mouseemu (http://www.geekounet.org/powerbook/files/mouseemu.tar.gz) on | a 15 months ol

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-10 Thread Moritz Armingeon
On 08:40 Thu 10 Feb , John Harrold wrote: > /dev/input/mice > /dev/input/mouse0 > /dev/input/mouse1 > /dev/psaux I'm using /dev/mouse which seems to point at /dev/input/mice, but maybe it's worth a try? Moritz Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mou

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-10 Thread Emanuele Olivetti
It happened to me once on my ibook g4: mouse didn't work. The only solution I had found (but I'm not able to reproduce since it never happened anymore) was to reset PRAM, pressing apple-alt-p-r during boot. I don't know why but it worked. Emanuele On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 08:40:01AM -0500, John H

Re: trackpad on powerbook

2005-02-10 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello John... * John Harrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-10 14:38 +0100]: > So I decided it was time to get a laptop and I got a powerbook. Naturally > the first thing I did was repartition the drive to install linux. Now I've > got debian installed and it's dual booting between osx and debian ju