Moused crashes with Synaptics

[Mel Flynn]

On Tuesday 04 August 2009 03:26:24 Bertram Scharpf wrote:

> Further I seem to have missed something else. I found the page
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/SynapticsTouchpad where are mentioned some
> sysctls:
>
>   hw.psm.synaptics_support="1"
>   hw.psm.synaptics.vscroll_hor_area=1300
>
> I don't have those ctls here and I cannot find the kernel driver
> that provides them.

That's because they're loader tunables. You set them in /boot/loader.conf. The 
LOADER TUNABLES section of psm(4) details it.

Note that I had not a very good experience with the synaptics driver about a 
year ago and haven't tried since. YMMV.
-- 
Mel