I thought the Numlock behaviour that you describe was an intentional feature. I seem to recall reading that you have to hold Fn to get numbers all the time because the author of the new firmware didn't like the standard Numlock functionality. This was the sole reason I never used that firmware.
I'm not using the Synaptics driver (it's not available for NetBSD currently). I did finally get round to documenting the settings I use in KDE (v4) to make the touchpad most usable:
Mouse wheel emulation does not currently work, so that setting isn't relevant for me.
My touchpad recently has devolped a new problem making it all but unusable. I may have to tweak the settings again but I'm not sure that will help. What it does now is detect every touch as a double-tap. So every movement is drag or select.
I'm not using the Synaptics driver (it's not available for NetBSD currently). I did finally get round to documenting the settings I use in KDE (v4) to make the touchpad most usable:
Code:
Pointer acceleration: 10.0x
Pointer threshold: 6 pixels
Double click interval: 400 msec
Drag start time: 500 msec
Drag start distance: 1pixel
Mouse wheel scrolls by: 3 linesMouse wheel emulation does not currently work, so that setting isn't relevant for me.
My touchpad recently has devolped a new problem making it all but unusable. I may have to tweak the settings again but I'm not sure that will help. What it does now is detect every touch as a double-tap. So every movement is drag or select.