Hi, here are a set of patches being worked on to add native synaptics touch pad support to OpenBSD and Xenocara.
The xf86-input-synaptics driver itself is already committed and built in Xenocara. http://xenocara.org/wscons_config.2.diff is a diff that uses the X hot-plug mechanism to configure you input drivers. It will setup the xf86-input-synaptics driver for you if you have one, together with a regular mouse driver that will handle any external PS/2 or USB mouse attached in addition. Touchscreens will also be auto-configured this way if one is detected. This new code also takes care of the configuration of the keyboard layout from the wscons layout. Thus a second diff: http://xenocara.org/xf86-input-keyboard.diff removes that code from the keyboard driver. To apply those patches: cd /usr/xenocara/xserver patch -p0 -E < /path/to/wscons_config.2.diff make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper obj make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper build cd /usr/xenocara/driver/xf86-input-keyboard patch -p0 -E < /path/to/xf86-input-keyboard.diff make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper obj make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper build Once X is ready, apply the kernel patch, and build a new kernel with the synaptics support in pms(4): http://xenocara.org/sys-synaptics.diff cd /sys patch -p0 -E < /path/to/sys-synaptics.diff the new kernel will detect your synaptics touch pad if any, and X will be configured with the xf86-input-synaptics. Read the synaptics(4) manual page to discover all its features. You can check how the input drivers were configured by running the command: xinput list If you are configuring input devices manually in xorg,conf you need to add this to the ServerFlags section (but may be you should give a try at auto-configuration and remove your InputDevice sections all together): Section ServerFlags Option "AutoAddDevices" "false" EndSection Please test, comment and report failures. Make sure to include /var/log/Xorg.0.log and dmesg outputs in your reports. Thanks to Alexandr Shadchin (shadchin@) for his work on this driver and to all people who already tested these patches and suggested enhancements. -- Matthieu Herrb
