Dope Ice Apollyon the Third wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 02:36:02PM +0100, Mikael Bak wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>> I'm really new to openbsd, so please forgive me if this is faq or rtfm.
>>>
>>> I did try to search for information on how to be able to scroll with my
> laptop touchpad, but did not find any openbsd specific documentation.
>>> I'd be happy if someone could point me to any documentation describing how
> to do this in openbsd.
>>> My system:
>>> $ uname -a
>>> OpenBSD neo.my.domain 4.6 GENERIC#58 i386
>>>
>>> My laptop:
>>> Dell Latitude CPt 400
>>> (it's an old P2 400MHz)
>>>
>>> In WinXP a driver from synaptics made the scrolling work.
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>> --
>>> Mikael Bak <[email protected]>
>>>
>> First... investigate if the scrolling ins'n in hardware...
>>
>> (I read the manual of my eeepc and it said everything about "scrolling",
>> because the eeepc have some interesting ways to do it)
>
> It's not in hardware. On linux this is supported by the synaptics X
> touchpad driver. I would also really like to see this work on OpenBSD
> but I'm not awesome enough to know why it doesn't. I took a stab at
> compiling the synaptics driver (which you can google for) and it, of
> course, failed miserably (and yes I used gmake).
>
> I know that some features need a multitouch touchpad, but simple
> scrolling should just be able to work with any touchpad that can give
> an x,y coordinate. It's a pity.
>
> -Nick
>
Abel, Nick,
Thanks both of you for responding!
I also have the feeling that basic scrolling shouldn't depend on
specific hardware. I have used this same hw in WinXP and successfully
made the touchpad scroll. Zooming and other features may be hardware
dependent.
Nick, you are telling me that people use openbsd and X and surf the web
as their primary OS without missing this feature? :-) We are the only
ones who whould like to use our old laptops this way? :-)
OK. I know the gig. If I want it to work I should download the source
code and fix it, then post the fix to a list with developers who can
review and submit the patches. I know that. I was just surprised such
basic thing haven't been targeted yet.
I just took a look at my other laptop (running Ubuntu) and its xorg.conf
has this:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
EndSection
It seems to be a similar way in FreeBSD (PCBSD):
http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=9249
Oh well. If someone had any luck with this on OpenBSD, then please tell us.
TIA,
Mikael
