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Date:      Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:23:54 +0100
From:      Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen@ose.nl>
To:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [patch] Re: Fwd: thinkpad and synaptics igor: fixed whitespace
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On 12/19/12 22:07, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 19 December 2012 13:32, Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen@ose.nl> wrote:
>> On 12/19/12 19:21, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>> On 19 December 2012 13:19, Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen@ose.nl> wrote:
>>>> Very nice, thanks!
>>>> It is working for me also, I made a rather stupid mistake, the touchpad
>>>> was
>>>> disabled and I had to enable it with Fn + F7 key :)
>>> Can you provide an updated patch for the FAQ?  I imagine you are just
>>> removing the sentence about rc.conf ?
>>>
>>>
>> The sentence about /etc/rc.conf is fine.
> so the patch is fine as is, I got lost in the follow up?
>
>

Just three minor changes.



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Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
===================================================================
--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	(revision 40429)
+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	(working copy)
@@ -5753,6 +5753,46 @@
       </qandaentry>
 
+      <qandaentry>
+	<question id="x-and-synaptic">
+	  <para>My laptop has a Synaptics touchpad.  Can I use
+	    it in X?</para>
+	</question>
+
+	<answer>
+	  <para>Yes, you will have to configure a few things to
+	    make it work.</para>
+
+	  <para>To use the &xorg; synaptics driver in X, you
+	    <emphasis>must</emphasis> remove
+	    <literal>moused_enable="YES"</literal> from
+	    <filename>rc.conf</filename>.  &xorg can not use
+	    the synaptics touchpad if the moused already uses
+	    <filename>/dev/psm0</filename>.</para>
+
+	  <para>To enable synaptics in &man.psm.4
+	    add the following to
+	    <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>:</para>
+
+	  <programlisting>hw.psm.synaptics_support="1"</programlisting>
+
+	  <para>Also add the following to
+	    <filename>xorg.conf</filename>:</para>
+
+	  <programlisting>Section "InputDevice"
+Identifier  "Touchpad0"
+Driver      "synaptics"
+Option      "Protocol" "psm"
+Option      "Device" "/dev/psm0"
+EndSection</programlisting>
+
+	  <para>As well as the following in the
+	    <quote>ServerLayout</quote> section :</para>
+
+	  <programlisting>InputDevice    "Touchpad0" "SendCoreEvents"</programlisting>
+	</answer>
+      </qandaentry>
+
       <qandaentry>
 	<question id="no-remote-x11">
 	  <para>How do I use remote X displays?</para>
 	</question>

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