Call For Testers: Synaptics touchpads

Rui Paulo rpaulo at me.com
Wed Apr 8 16:19:39 UTC 2015


On Wednesday 08 April 2015 09:13:51 Shawn Webb wrote:
> 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?

No, it's all in the kernel.

-- 
Rui Paulo


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