On 31/01/15(Sat) 12:27, Peter Piwowarski wrote: > Hello, > > pms(4) currently seems to have no particular support for the trackpoint > devices on Thinkpads.
"Recent" Thinkpads have support for the trackpoint via the Synaptics protocol supported by pms(4). > These support some extensions to the PS/2 protocol, to > do things like configure the device's sensitivity. What can be done to add > support for this to OpenBSD? IBM provides (or provided) some fairly detailed > docs[1], and there is a driver in linux[2][3]. I'd be interested in > attacking this myself, but I have no experience with kernel hacking and > don't really know how to begin. I can provide dmesg for systems with > trackpoint and touchpad and for systems without a touchpad, if anyone is > interested. First step for kernel hacking would be to follow -current and be able to build your own kernel 8) Posting your dmesg would help us understand which hardware you're talking about. Then you might want to add another protocol for your trackpoint to pms(4), have look at pms_protocols[] :) Martin
