Call For Testers: Synaptics touchpads

[Shawn Webb]

On Apr 8, 2015 4:27 PM, "Lars Engels" <lars.engels at 0x20.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 01:32:06PM -0400, Shawn Webb wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 09:19 -0700, Rui Paulo wrote:
> > > 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
>
> Did you add this to loader.conf?
> >
> > It's not working in the slightest to me. Looking at the patch, you
> > expose additional sysctls. None of those sysctls are visible to me. Is
> > there something I need to do besides apply the patch and recompile my
> > kernel? If not, then the patch doesn't work in the slightest.
>
> Does "grep -i synaptics /var/run/dmesg.boot" show anything?

I ran through some tests, it looks like my synaptics touchpad isn't
supported. I'll have to add support for the device itself before his patch
is useful.