Re: Call For Testers: Synaptics touchpads

From: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pinter_at_hardenedbsd.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 17:04:41 +0200
Is there any special settings / requirements for xorg.conf to enable
the palm detection and similar features?

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Shawn Webb <shawn.webb_at_hardenedbsd.org> 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
>>
>> in loader.conf.
>
> Hey Rui,
>
> I'm excited to have this and will test this out this week. Do I need to
> recompile any ports (namely, the xf86-input-synaptics port) after
> applying this patch?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shawn
Received on Wed Apr 08 2015 - 13:04:54 UTC

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