From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 9 16:23:12 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 83F5D852 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2015 16:23:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from st11p00mm-asmtp001.mac.com (st11p00mm-asmtp001.mac.com [17.172.81.0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 58D61115 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 2015 16:23:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from akita.localnet (c-73-162-13-215.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [73.162.13.215]) by st11p00mm-asmtp001.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.35.0 64bit (built Dec 4 2014)) with ESMTPSA id <0NMJ00A5ES6GIE30@st11p00mm-asmtp001.mac.com> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2015 16:23:05 +0000 (GMT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.13.68,1.0.33,0.0.0000 definitions=2015-04-09_04:2015-04-09,2015-04-09,1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=4 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=7.0.1-1412110000 definitions=main-1504090137 From: Rui Paulo To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call For Testers: Synaptics touchpads Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 09:23:03 -0700 Message-id: <2268970.zrlgrUFVDR@akita> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (FreeBSD/11.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.14.3; amd64; ; ) In-reply-to: <55265F29.7030008@gmail.com> References: <1849381.HnoQVUIgNM@akita> <55265F29.7030008@gmail.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 16:38:51 +0000 Cc: David Demelier X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 16:23:12 -0000 On Thursday 09 April 2015 13:14:49 David Demelier wrote: > Le 08/04/2015 09:19, Rui Paulo a =E9crit : > > Hi, > >=20 > > The attached patch adds support for newer touchpad features and imp= lements > > two finger scrolling. This is such a common feature these days tha= t 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. >=20 > Thank you very much, I always wondered why this was not supported in > FreeBSD. I also wonder if it will be tunable with the appropriate > GNOME/KDE (or just the synclient tool) settings to disable this > two-finger scroll at runtime. >=20 > > Please test it and report back your experience. To enable synaptic= s > > support, you need: > >=20 > > hw.psm.synaptics_support=3D1 >=20 > I strongly suggest to enable this by default, it will prevent lot of > users having headaches seeking why their touchpads do not work by > default. We also added sound support by default, why not the touchpad= ? :-). The logic to detect Synaptics could interfere with other input devices.= That=20 said, I plan on turning it on by default for a while to see what happen= s. --=20 Rui Paulo