Call For Testers: Synaptics touchpads

Shawn Webb shawn.webb at hardenedbsd.org
Wed Apr 8 13:13:59 UTC 2015


On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 00:19 -0700, Rui Paulo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The attached patch adds support for newer touchpad features and implements two 
> finger scrolling.  This is such a common feature these days that I think we 
> should enable it by default and disable edge scrolling.  I've implemented some 
> detection code to keep edge scrolling enabled when the touchpad has a 
> dedicated area for scrolling.
> 
> Please test it and report back your experience.  To enable synaptics support, 
> you need:
> 
> hw.psm.synaptics_support=1
> 
> in loader.conf.

Hey Rui,

I'm excited to have this and will test this out this week. Do I need to
recompile any ports (namely, the xf86-input-synaptics port) after
applying this patch?

Thanks,

Shawn
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