On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 01:14:49PM +0200, David Demelier wrote:
> Le 08/04/2015 09:19, Rui Paulo a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > The attached patch adds support for newer touchpad features and implements 
> > two
> > finger scrolling.  This is such a common feature these days that 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> >
> > Please test it and report back your experience.  To enable synaptics 
> > support,
> > you need:
> >
> > hw.psm.synaptics_support=1
> 
> 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 ? :-).

While this is generally a good idea it would prevent the use of 
hw.psm.trackpoint_support=1

But it would be aweseome to have both enabled. Could someone
investigate?

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