[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life

[Tomasz CEDRO]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 9:30 PM Per Hedeland <per at hedeland.org> wrote:
> On 2020-02-20 19:50, Ed Maste wrote:
> > Modern laptops need an I2C touchpad driver, which isn't in the base
> > system yet. It's now available in the ports collection and can be
> > built standalone fairly easily; it works fine on my Lenovo X1 Carbon
> > 7th generation.
>
> I'd be very interested in that - can you provide a more specific
> pointer than "in the ports collection"?:-)

+1 for Touchpad / Trackpad support hint.. in a perfect world I would
love to see this working out of the box :-)

I have a Panasonic Toughbook CF-MX4 with Synaptics Touchpad.

Various gestures works out of the box on Linux and Windoze (including
two finger scroll horizontal and vertical, pan, zoom, rotate, etc).

On FreeBSD I did not manage to make it work neither with
hw.psm.synaptics (seems like protocol out-of-sync),
x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics (the same problem as with psm
protocol error), nor x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev :-(

After working on MacBookPro Trackpad I do not imagine working without
trackpad gestures anymore. Scrollbars are auto-hiding now and it
really distracts to search and click-to-scroll (its so 90's). I only
use mouse for CAD when really necessary..

I did not have this problem on any other laptop, usually at least two
finger scroll worked with psm (but still not with the Apple's Trackpad
quality).

Best regards :-)
Tomek

ps/2: +1 for Bluetooth connectivity, preferably A2DP sound streaming
to a bluetooth speaker, I saw other folks also find it useful :-)

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