Re: Call For Testers: Synaptics touchpads

From: Lars Engels <lars.engels_at_0x20.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 22:27:54 +0200
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 01:32:06PM -0400, Shawn Webb wrote:
> 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

Did you add this to loader.conf?
> 
> 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.

Does "grep -i synaptics /var/run/dmesg.boot" show anything?

Received on Wed Apr 08 2015 - 18:28:00 UTC

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