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Subject: Re: Synaptics Touchpad driver
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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