Re: ASUS Eee PC S101

From: Stanislav Sedov <stas_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:17:02 +0300
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On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:50:57 +0300
Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd_at_codelabs.ru> mentioned:

> Stanislav, *, good day.
> 
> Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:08:44AM +0300, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> > > % sysctl hw.psm.synaptics_support
> > > sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.psm.synaptics_support'
> > > 
> > 
> > This is not a sysctl variable, but kenv one. It should be set via
> > /boot/loader.conf.
> 
> May be the attached patch for psm(4) will be good?  I had seen some
> people who also tried to use sysctl here, because
> "hw.psm.synaptics_support" looks like sysctl node name and psm(4) was
> not explicitely stating where it should be set.

The manual page clearly states it should be set at boot. The /boot/loader.conf
isn't the single possible way to achive this, you can aslo set this manually
in loaded, or there might be another ways to set kenv variables in another
bootloaders.  Claiming that the variable should be set in /boot/loader.conf
isn't good, I think.

- -- 
Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE
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