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Date:      Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:21:04 +0100
From:      Giulio Ferro <auryn@zirakzigil.org>
To:        Donnie <donniepennington@mac.com>,  nork@FreeBSD.org,  freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Synaptics
Message-ID:  <47728D80.5010507@zirakzigil.org>
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Donnie wrote:
> On Dec 12, 10:51 am, Giulio Ferro <au...@zirakzigil.org> wrote:
>   
>> Unfortunately those settings are already specified in /e
>> tc/X11/xorg.conf in the
>> section "InputDevice" for thetouchpad.
>>
>> If you look in the /usr/ports/x11-drivers/synaptics/pkg-message it's all
>> already there
>>     
>
> I had the same problem, but finally happened on this solution:
> despite what the pkg-message says, in xorg.conf you have to specify
> both a non-existent mouse and the touchpad, in addition to following
> all the other pkg-message directions.  So, my xorg.conf has:
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "X.org Configured"
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "AlwaysCore"
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>         InputDevice    "Synaptics_Touchpad" "CorePointer"
> EndSection
>
> ### Note that touchpad MUST be CorePointer and non-existent mouse must
> be AlwaysCore ###
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier  "Mouse0"
> 	Driver      "mouse"
> 	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
> 	Option	    "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>   Identifier  	"Synaptics_Touchpad"
>   Driver  	"synaptics"
>   Option	"SendCoreEvents"
>   Option	"Device"  	"/dev/psm0"
>   Option	"Protocol"	"psm"
>   Option	"TouchpadOff"   "0"
>   Option	"LeftEdge"      "1700"
>   Option	"RightEdge"     "5300"
>   Option	"TopEdge"       "1700"
>   Option	"BottomEdge"    "4200"
>   Option	"FingerLow"	"25"
>   Option	"FingerHigh"	"30"
>   Option	"MaxTapTime"	"180"
>   Option	"MaxTapMove"	"220"
>   Option	"VertScrollDelta" "100"
>   Option	"MinSpeed"	"0.06"
>   Option	"MaxSpeed"	"0.06"
>   Option	"AccelFactor"	"0.0010"
>   Option	"HorizScrollDelta"	"100"
>   Option        "UpDownScrolling"       "on"
>   Option        "UpDownRepeat"          "on"
>   Option        "LeftRightScrolling"    "on"
>   Option        "LeftRightRepeat"       "on"
>   Option	"SHMConfig"	"on"
> EndSection
>
> Good luck!
>
> --
> Donnie
>   


Doesn't work, sorry. The server starts, but the mouse pointer isn't moving.

Anyway I'm not sure this is the right way to do thinks. I'd dearly like 
to listen from
the maintainer, maybe it can shed some light on the /dev/input/event 
issue...




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