Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

[Mark Felder]

On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:45:59 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith  
<stephen at missouri.edu> wrote:

> More recently I have had to start using Linux because FreeBSD doesn't  
> have very good laptop support.  (All I ask for is a way to configure the  
> mouse pad so that I can switch off "tap to click.")

See, this isn't very obvious to most people. It took me forever to figure  
it out.

On every other OS you use the Xorg synaptics driver, but on FreeBSD there  
is synaptics support built-in with the rest of the mouse driver.

man 4 psm:

      Tap and drag gestures can be disabled by setting hw.psm.tap_enabled  
to 0
      at boot-time.  Currently, this is only supported on Synaptics  
touchpads
      with Extended support disabled. The behaviour may be changed after  
boot
      by setting the sysctl with the same name and by restarting moused(8)
      using /etc/rc.d/moused.