Re: Call For Testers: Synaptics touchpads

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
> > > 
> > > 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?
> 
> No, it's all in the kernel.
> 

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.

Thanks,

Shawn