The following reply was made to PR kern/28990; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Steve Woodford <scw@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/28990: synaptics driver - my pointing stick now doesn't work
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:32:20 +0000

 Yet more information which should've gone to gnats-bugs@ in the first 
 place.  Sorry it's not in chronological order.
 
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 Subject: Re: kern/28990: synaptics driver - my pointing stick now doesn't 
 work
 Date: Monday 17 January 2005 11:40
 From: Steve Woodford <scw@netbsd.org>
 To: rtr@netbsd.org
 Cc: gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
 
 Please apply the attached patch.
 
 With this patch, Synaptics Touchpad support will be enabled only if
 "options PMS_SYNAPTICS_TOUCHPAD" is specified in the kernel config file.
 
 Cheers, Steve
 
 [patch elided; see commit message noted in the PR]
 
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 Subject: Re: kern/28990: synaptics driver - my pointing stick now doesn't 
 work
 Date: Monday 17 January 2005 19:48
 From: Steve Woodford <scw@netbsd.org>
 To: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
 Cc: gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
 
 On Monday 17 January 2005 19:02, Dave Huang wrote:
 > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:40:13AM +0000, Steve Woodford wrote:
 > > With this patch, Synaptics Touchpad support will be enabled only if
 > > "options PMS_SYNAPTICS_TOUCHPAD" is specified in the kernel config
 > > file.
 >
 > What if we want both to work? The Inspiron 8000 has a Synaptics
 > Touchpad and pointing stick (and the Windows driver from Synaptics
 > knows how to handle both of them). I like the support for the touchpad
 > that was added, but I often use the pointing stick too.
 
 It's not ideal, and I would like to support both at some point.
 
 I notice Synaptics do a combined stick/pad, so perhaps they already have
 the relevant documentation up on the developer's section of their
 website. A very quick glance didn't reveal anything obvious though.
 
 This option will at least provide the ability to revert back to a
  working touchpad _and_ stick. At least until stick support is added to
  the driver.
 
 Cheers, Steve
 
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