[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life

[Tomasz CEDRO]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 1:52 AM Per Hedeland <per at hedeland.org> wrote:
> Anyway, a bit of searching in the ports tree indicated that it was
> sysutils/iichid, and after building/installing/loading it, plus
> loading ig4, installing x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput, and adding
> the suggested xorg.conf snippet (adjusted per output from 'libinput
> list-devices') - the touchpad works! (At least to the extent that I
> care to use it.)

This is clearly something that is very missing in the Handbook / WIKI
/ synaptics manpages!

I always gave FreeBSD as an example of perfectly documented project.

Does not seem applicable anymore. Documentation is out of sync and
"works for me" solutions are so Linux :-(

On the other hand IICHID was released 9 days ago - and finally brings
standard to USB and I2C HID layer on FreeBSD serving as input for
evdev and libinput - THANK YOU WULF7 :-)


> It has a kind of strange behavior though, might be a feature:-) -
> if I move the cursor and let go of the touchpad without first stopping
> the motion, the cursor continues to move on its own...

This is a feature not a bug ;-) However, there should be a decay in
the scroll speed when you let go scrolling ;-)

You may want to try sysctl, xmodmap, xinput, or gsettings to change /
tune Touchpad parameters.

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