Thinkpad T43 strangeness

[Arne Schwabe]

"jedihobbes at gmail.com" <jedihobbes at gmail.com> writes:

> Ok, I fixed it. I removed "device acpi" from my kernel conf, and added
> acpi_ibm_load="YES" to loader.conf, this seems to have solved the
> problems. Just to clarify some things, then:
>
> On 9/19/05, Tobias Roth <roth at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
>> I have neither of those. Are you sure the first one is correct? Just
>> remove apic from your kernel config and you should be fine in this
>> matter. Does it work without the synaptics support? I'll try setting
>> hw.psm.synaptics_support="1" once I have time and see if I can get the
>> touchpad working.
>
> I disabled apic as per this:
>
> http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/index.pl?action=show_laptop_comment&commentid=874&laptop=701
>
> but I suppose I could've removed APIC from the kernconf. Either way it
> works:) With regards to the synaptics support, I'm *hoping* that it
> will give the same functionality that the Synaptics driver does under
> Linux, so that the KDE-FreeBSD guys can help me get KSynaptics
> (http://qsynaptics.sourceforge.net/) working. It's not an entirely
> NECESSARY tool, just a pretty way of enhancing the touchpad use.

Well the synaptics xorg driver works with freebsd (compiling is a bit
pain at the Moment.), if you enable synaptics support with 
hw.psm.synaptics_support=1 in /boot/loader.conf
ksynaptics should also work.

Arne