ports/167194: x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics 1.5.0 trackpoint(LENOVO) does not move

[Brandon Gooch]

The following reply was made to PR ports/167194; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch at gmail.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, t-matubara at miracle.ocn.ne.jp
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/167194: x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics 1.5.0
 trackpoint(LENOVO) does not move
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 09:03:05 -0500

 Guest mouse support was "purged" by this commit:
 
 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-synaptics/commit/?id=b19e3782a77c171ca20fc962f95923495fdb7978
 
 Apparently, the pointing stick device will have to be presented as a
 separate mouse device from that point forward, with a mouse driver
 attached to run it.
 
 However, the FreeBSD psm(4) device still provides support for
 pass-through "guest" devices for synaptic toucpads, so you could
 investigate using the synaptics support as described here:
 
 http://wiki.freebsd.org/SynapticsTouchpad
 
 I've had to hack the psm(4) driver a bit to fix a couple of mouse
 button and scrolling issues, but other than those issues, it's seems
 to work well.
 
 -Brandon