Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:48:46 -0800 (PST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net> To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Synaptics Touchpad driver Message-ID: <20050313104455.A54006@sotec.home> In-Reply-To: <20050313074746.GA17624@alzatex.com> References: <20050313074746.GA17624@alzatex.com>
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Hi,
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Loren M. Lang wrote:
> It seems that FreeBSD 5.3 now has support in the kernel for the
> synaptics touchpad that my laptop has. Right now it's just running as a
> normal mouse, it looks like the support is disabled by default. In
> isa/psm.c, I can see the synaptics support in there, but it's disabled
> unless hw.psm.synaptics_support is set to 1. My question is how do I
> set it to one? It's setup as a TUNABLE_INT, but there is no sysctl for
> it. Does it only appear on boot?
It is not a sysctl, it is a kernel tunable. You control it from the
boot loader, for example by putting
hw.psm.synaptics_support="1"
into /boot/loader.conf. See loader.conf(5) and /boot/defaults/loader.conf
for more information.
$.02,
/Mikko
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