Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:30:15 +0300 From: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru> To: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, k m <m.k12015@gmail.com> Subject: Re: ASUS Eee PC S101 Message-ID: <emNn6GRyyD7NKxux7lIRK0HkS0Q@Ygd1c9Ysaj5L1jAr7uLel4OlP0w> In-Reply-To: <20081204111702.998fa59b.stas@FreeBSD.org> References: <870d2e5a0812022051q2007b46eq4fd2115f76f3e5d6@mail.gmail.com> <20081203110844.96cc9d0a.stas@FreeBSD.org> <O4WBHpaBARTT1fU0aPJMo%2BNNpqA@ZMrWpYfqYuBOAl/VDVr8navA5fA> <20081204111702.998fa59b.stas@FreeBSD.org>
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Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:17:02AM +0300, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> The manual page clearly states it should be set at boot.
Yes, but how? It will be friendly to the reader of psm who wants
Synaptics support to provide the reference right in the manual.
> The /boot/loader.conf isn't the single possible way to achive
> this, you can aslo set this manually in loaded,
Point taken, the attached patch says about it.
> or there might be another ways to set kenv variables in another
> bootloaders.
Hmm, I think that it is out of the scope for psm(4). We can even write
some kernel module that will hack the psm driver to activate Synaptics,
but it is not the thing that should be mentioned in the psm(4) ;))
> Claiming that the variable should be set in /boot/loader.conf
> isn't good, I think.
OK, but what about the modified patch for psm(4) page?
Thanks.
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=46rom 131cd7a637a168e3cb3a698031a8b297a148abdf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
=46rom: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:44:23 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] psm(4): rephrase explanations about Synaptics support
The previous explanation said 'at boot-time' and could be a bit unclear
to people who aren't very familiar with the kenv, loader.conf and the
company. Explicit words about /boot/loader.conf and the need for
rebooting are a bit better ;))
Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru>
---
share/man/man4/psm.4 | 9 ++++++++-
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/share/man/man4/psm.4 b/share/man/man4/psm.4
index 15ee8e4..3b4268e 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/psm.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/psm.4
@@ -353,10 +353,15 @@ Extended support for Synaptics touchpads can be enabl=
ed by setting
.Va hw.psm.synaptics_support
to
.Em 1
-at boot-time.
+in
+.Pa /boot/loader.conf
+or setting it at the boot time via the
+.Xr loader 8
+command line.
This will enable
.Nm
to handle packets from guest devices (sticks) and extra buttons.
+Reboot is needed to activate the handling of Synaptics touchpads.
.Sh IOCTLS
There are a few
.Xr ioctl 2
@@ -840,6 +845,8 @@ Clicking any button without moving the mouse may also w=
ork.
.Xr mouse 4 ,
.Xr mse 4 ,
.Xr sysmouse 4 ,
+.Xr loader.conf 5 ,
+.Xr loader 8 ,
.Xr moused 8 ,
.Xr syslogd 8
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