Synaptics

[Eygene Ryabinkin]

Giulio, good day.

Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 12:55:35PM +0100, Giulio Ferro wrote:
> I just wanted to report that the synaptics touchpad driver 
> (/usr/ports/x11-drivers/synaptics)
> doesn't work in my configuration:
> freebsd 7 beta4 - amd64 - synaptics-0.14.6_2
> 
> I set  hw.psm.synaptics_support=1 in /boot/loader.conf,
> disable moused, change /etc/X11/xorg.conf according to the instructions
> in pkg-messages.
> 
> Unfortunately every time I try to start X the following error occurs:
> 
> --------------
> (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.6 (1406)
> Synaptics_Touchpad no synaptics event device found (checked 10 nodes)
> Synaptics_Touchpad The /dev/input/event* device nodes seem to be missing
> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: No Device specified.
> Synaptics driver unable to open device

And what if you'll specify
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        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psm0"
        Option          "Protocol"              "psm"
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in the xorg.conf?  I assume that you have your synaptics touchpad
as the /dev/psm0.
-- 
Eygene