[patch] Re: Fwd: thinkpad and synaptics igor: fixed whitespace
Bas Smeelen
b.smeelen at ose.nl
Wed Dec 19 22:23:57 UTC 2012
On 12/19/12 22:07, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 19 December 2012 13:32, Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen at ose.nl> wrote:
>> On 12/19/12 19:21, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>> On 19 December 2012 13:19, Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen at ose.nl> wrote:
>>>> Very nice, thanks!
>>>> It is working for me also, I made a rather stupid mistake, the touchpad
>>>> was
>>>> disabled and I had to enable it with Fn + F7 key :)
>>> Can you provide an updated patch for the FAQ? I imagine you are just
>>> removing the sentence about rc.conf ?
>>>
>>>
>> The sentence about /etc/rc.conf is fine.
> so the patch is fine as is, I got lost in the follow up?
>
>
Just three minor changes.
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Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
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--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml (revision 40429)
+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml (working copy)
@@ -5753,6 +5753,46 @@
</qandaentry>
+ <qandaentry>
+ <question id="x-and-synaptic">
+ <para>My laptop has a Synaptics touchpad. Can I use
+ it in X?</para>
+ </question>
+
+ <answer>
+ <para>Yes, you will have to configure a few things to
+ make it work.</para>
+
+ <para>To use the &xorg; synaptics driver in X, you
+ <emphasis>must</emphasis> remove
+ <literal>moused_enable="YES"</literal> from
+ <filename>rc.conf</filename>. &xorg can not use
+ the synaptics touchpad if the moused already uses
+ <filename>/dev/psm0</filename>.</para>
+
+ <para>To enable synaptics in &man.psm.4
+ add the following to
+ <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>:</para>
+
+ <programlisting>hw.psm.synaptics_support="1"</programlisting>
+
+ <para>Also add the following to
+ <filename>xorg.conf</filename>:</para>
+
+ <programlisting>Section "InputDevice"
+Identifier "Touchpad0"
+Driver "synaptics"
+Option "Protocol" "psm"
+Option "Device" "/dev/psm0"
+EndSection</programlisting>
+
+ <para>As well as the following in the
+ <quote>ServerLayout</quote> section :</para>
+
+ <programlisting>InputDevice "Touchpad0" "SendCoreEvents"</programlisting>
+ </answer>
+ </qandaentry>
+
<qandaentry>
<question id="no-remote-x11">
<para>How do I use remote X displays?</para>
</question>
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